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MONEY- MAKING 

ENTERTAINM ENTS 

FOR CHURCH AND 

CHARITY 



BY 

MARY DAWSON 

Author of ''The Book of Parties and Pastimes" and 

*'The Book of Entertainments and Frolics 

for All Occasions'* 



PHILADELPHIA 

DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER 

604-8 SOUTH WASHINGTON SQUARE . 






Copyright, 191 5, by 
David McKay 



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APR 12 1915 

©CI.A397523 



INDEX 



PAGE 



DANCES 288-303 

Dixie Dance 288 

Jungle 291 

Summer Eve 291 

Italian 292 

Poinsettia 292 

Portrait 294 

Candy 295 

Flower 296 

Mystery 297 

Leap Year 298 

Middy 299 

Manacle 300 

Starlight 301 

DINNERS, SUPPERS, ETC 108-151 

Round the World Supper 109 

Pickup Supper no 

Chinese Luncheon 112 

Beefsteak Supper 117 

Canny Luncheon 121 

Fish Supper 123 

,y Melon Festival 125 

Oyster Dinner 127 

Peach Festival 131 

Cherry Breakfast 131 

Apple Breakfast 134 

Indian Meal 137 

Cherry Festival 138 

3 



4 Index 



PAGE 



Oyster Festival 139 

Italian Dinner 140 

Progressive Hayride 144 

Mother Goose Supper 145 

Automobile Dinner 147 

Circus Dinner 149 

Poinsettia Dinner 150 

Feast of Lanterns 151 

Indian Church Supper 259 

FAIRS 154-230 

Shaksperean 154 

Garden 157 

Dickens 159 

Five and Ten Cent 162 

Old Homestead 163 

Olde Tyme 167 

Industrial 167 

Army 170 

Navy 171 

Thackeray 172 

Donnybrook 174 

Maypole 175 

Little Gem 177 

Operatic 180 

Heroines 181 

Trees 182 

Turkey 184 

Millinery 185 

Pincushion 186 

Introduction 186 

Penny 187 

Flower 188 

Girls 188 

Jack Frost 189 

Seashore 195 



Index 5 

PAGE 

Basket 196 

Book and Picture 197 

Christmastide 198 

Through the Looking Glass 202 

Flower 210 

Olden Time Village 210 

Yellow Fair 211 

Cushion 212 

Patriotic 213 

Stock 214 

Pine Forest 225 

Morning Glory 226 

Freak Show 229 

SOCIALS 9-108 

New Year 9 

Snow 10 

Birthday 11 

Firelight 15 

Tropical 17 

Valentine 18 

Washington 19 

Easter Lily 21 

Squirrel 3^ 

Shadow 39 

Haunted House 40 

Spiritistic 43 

Fortime 46 

Hunting 47 

No L 49 

Christmas Card 51 

Yuletide 56 

Reindeer 64 

Ship 66 

Needlework 68 

Peanut 71 



6 Index 

PAGE 

Turkish 73 

Shirtwaist 76 

Forced Sale 79 

Novelty Social 81 

Old Time 82 

Number Eight 83 

Story Telling 84. 

Poverty 85 

Jumbo 86 

Bag 88 

Coupon 89 

Police 89 

Rubber 92 

Bag (Another) 94 

THEATRICALS 230-288 

Pageant of Flowers 230 

Fairy Play 235 

Hoop Drill 242 

Mother Goose Waxworks 244 

Reception to Lafayette 245 

Cynic Get a Laph 245 

Fair Children 246 

Advertisement Tableaux 246 

Geographical Baby Show 246 

Comic Baby Show 247 

Rag Doll Dance 248 

How Others Made Money 249 

Columbus Day Tableaux 255 

Thanksgiving Shadow Pictures 256 

Woman through the Ages 262 

Thankful Lane 264 

Samantha Allen 265 

The Bells 273 

Christmas Belles 277 



Index 7 

PAGE 

Illustrated Magazine 278 

Yankee Doodle Kitchen 279 

Major Atom 280 

Pageant of Autumn 281 

Pageant of Good Women 28^1 

7 



1 



MONEY^MAKING ENTERTAINMENTS 
FOR CHURCH AND CHARITY 



SOCIALS FOR JANUARY 

A NEW YEAR SOCIAL 

A party given just before the New Year is ushered 
in, or on the Eve of New Year's Day, can be made 
financially very successful if the invited ones are given 
a hint that the proceeds of the affair will be devoted 
to a certain good object. Decorations other than the 
Yuletide greens already in place will not be necessary. 
Have a side table covered with poinsettia crepe paper, 
and on this display for sale calendars, diaries, and New 
Year's cards. If the occasion is New Year's Eve, 
noisy little toys to usher in the new twelvemonth might 
be added to this list. 

For amusements pass around paper and pencils 
and let each guest write out a good resolution for the 
New Year couched in rhyme. Read these aloud and 
award a little calendar to the one whose resolution 
raises the heartiest laugh. 

Or cover the family dinner bell with scarlet crepe 

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paper, suspend it with ribbon from the ceiling and see 
who can ring it with rubber balls provided for the 
purpose. 

After the New Year has been welcomed in serve 
the following supper at twenty-five cents a head: 

Hot beef bouillon in cups. Oyster crackers. 

Lettuce mayonnaise sandwiches. Olives. 

Fruited gelatin, whipped cream. Home-made cake. 



A SNOW SOCIAL 

The best background for this social is made of pine 
branches or Kttle fir trees used to bank the walls of 
the room. Cover mantelpieces, door lintels, etc., with 
mounds of raw cotton sprinkled with diamond dust or 
with shaved white tissue paper. To the trees or boughs 
attach snowballs for sale. Several kinds of balls are 
available. The candy-boxes, in snowball shape, which 
any candy store can supply, if filled with bonbons, 
would sell well, or snowballs of white popcorn would 
be a good idea, or snowballs made of white crgpe paper 
filled with white confetti (paper) for a snowballing 
frolic later on. The candy-boxes might be twenty- 
five cents, the other balls five apiece. 

For the evening's fun have a contest in throwing 
snowballs at a target. These balls are ordinary India 
rubber ones covered with raw cotton and then rolled 
in flour. The target is a circlet cut from black paper. 



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The balls are rented at five for five cents and each ball 
represents a ^^ throw.'' There is a prize for the person 
who scores highest during the evening. 

For refreshments sell Great Blizzard (ice-cream) 
at ten cents a portion, and Snowscene (white frosted 
cake) at five cents a portion. 



EVERYBODY HAS A BIRTHDAY AT THIS 
NOVEL BIRTHDAY PARTY 

The children's Helping Hand Society of one pro- 
gressive town gave a novel sociable toward the be- 
ginning of the year, issuing tickets at twenty-five cents 
which entitled the guests to the privilege of celebra ting 
their birthdays. Needless to say the little helpers 
were as usual in charge of, or aided by, several grown- 
up persons. 

Each of the children invited was asked to come 
wearing something to suggest the month in which he 
was born. By this was meant not necessarily a cos- 
tiune; a head-dress served, as in the case of the little 
girls born in the spring months, who wore crowns of 
tissue-paper violets and daisies, and carried bouquets 
of the same; or it might be merely a novel trimming, 
as when the winter children wore coats and hats orna- 
mented with ermine — cotton-batting fur set off with 
big spots of black water-color paint or charcoal. 
Some of the summer children merely wore summer- 



12 Money-making Entertainments 

time frocks of white or pale colors, with paper sun- 
shades or fans. 

A corner of the big room was given to each of the 
four seasons. Thus the winter corner had pine-boughs 
with cotton-batting snow sprinkled with silver dust 
and interspersed with glass icicles; the spring corner 
showed various spring flowers made from crepe paper; 
the summer corner, a miniature haystack, with hay- 
wagons; and autiunn had fruit and artificial autumn 
leaves. 

When all the children had arrived, each youngster 
was directed to the portion of the room which repre- 
sented the season in which he was born, to play a game 
appropriate to that particular time of year. 

In the winter season they searched for snow crystals. 
These were cut from six-inch squares of white egg- 
shell cardboard. The designs were enlarged and 
adapted from an illustration in a text-book on ele- 
mentary physics. Each crystal, when completed, was 
cut in half, the halves being hidden at a distance from 
each other. When a small guest had discovered half 
a crystal, he tried to find the matching half and put 
them together. This plan could substitute the ex- 
citing contest of knocking fruit or candies from the 
bough of a tree, with snowballs, if time was lacking 
to prepare the crystals. 

In the spring corner a set of post-cards representing 
wild flowers were cut in half and hidden. The little 



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people endeavored to match the flowers with their 
stems. Making paper flowers, or cutting flower 
shapes out of paper, could be substituted if desired. 

In the summer corner the children filled Uttle toy 
farm wagons with hay, using oyster-forks to ^^ pitch" 
it; and there was also an apple race, which consisted 
in passing red apples rapidly along contesting lines 
into baskets. 

The autumn children were first called on to tint, 
with water-color, leaf shapes cut from cardboard. 
Afterward they had a blindfold game, which consisted 
in carrying a boy doll marked ^^ Truant" to a school- 
house drawn on a curtain and affixing him there with 
a pin. Those who brought the truant nearest to the 
school were pronounced winners of the game. 

At the end of twenty minutes' play the bell rang 
as a signal for all the games to be discontinued, while 
the players progressed in respective groups to enjoy 
the games of other people's birthday season. 

Before proceeding, however, to the next quarter- 
year, the little people were conducted into an adjoining 
room where was revealed the surprise of the occasion 
— ^birthday presents for everybody. There were four 
tables representing the seasons, and on each table 
were arranged favors, all simple, but of the sort which 
pleases children. 

On the winter table were candy icicles, crepe-paper 
bags filled with paper confetti snow, frosted holiday 



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cards, wands covered with silver paper, surmounted 
by stars and tinsel, cotton snowballs with whistles 
in the center, and snowballs of white sugar popcorn. 
At the spring table were tissue-paper flowers with 
mottoes glued in, paper flower patterns, watering-pots, 
spades and other tools cut from cardboard and then 
silvered, and packages of Japanese water toys. At 
the summer table there were home-braided straw 
hats for the girls' dolls, and for the boys, gilt and silver 
fish with riddles written in red ink on their sides. 
There were lady apples dipped in melted sugar and 
impaled on skewers, and little bales of hay with bright 
new pennies at the very core. At the autumn table 
there were little boxes containing chestnuts or pop- 
corn, blotters and needle-books in the form of colored 
leaves, and pencils and pads for play instead of study. 

When the tables had been stripped, each small 
person had received his birthday present. This over, 
all progressed to the next season and its games. 
Meanwhile the snow crystals had been reshuffled and 
rehidden; the flowers and their stems again separated; 
the summer hay supply looked as if it had never been 
disturbed, and the apples were ready for another race. 
All the children progressed to play all the seasonable 
games, but after the first round there were no more 
birthday gifts. 

The refreshments carried out the same scheme as 
the games and decorations, each course representing 



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one of the seasons. Winter was represented in the 
cups of steaming soup served with salted crackers; 
spring was creamed chicken in green paper cases 
trimmed with paper buttercups and daisies; summer 
took the form of ice-cream decorated with tiny paper 
fans; and autumn was represented by nuts, sugared 
popcorn, and the marshmallows we toast around the 
first hearth fire of the fall. 



A FIRELIGHT SOCIAL 

For this picturesque little wintertime entertainment 
the invitation cards were decorated with tiny pen-and- 
ink sketches of hearthstones with burning logs thereon. 
The gathering was named as "A Firelight Social," 
and the guests were urged in the text to "come and 
read the pictures in the fire " on a certain day and date. 

The company arrived on the occasion appointed to 
find the living-hall lighted by a genial hickory blaze 
which formed the principal illumination, other lumin- 
aries in the form of gas and lamps being turned low 
or extinguished. The fireplace itself was prettily set 
ofif with a background of green pine boughs and gar- 
lands of hemlock and evergreen. 

After an exchange of greetings all gathered around 
the fireplace while the entertainer read aloud the 
touching passages from "Our Mutual Friend" where 
Lizzie Hexam reads the pictures in the glowing fire- 



i6 Money-making Entertainments 

light for her younger brother. Afterward paper and 
pencils were distributed and each was asked to write 
a short description of the picture seen in the fire on 
the present occasion. There were no specifications, 
each one writing the tale his fancy suggested, without 
restrictions, save as to time. At the end of ten min- 
utes the papers were collected and read by the hostess 
who awarded a framed picture representing a fireUght 
scene for the one considered cleverest. 

The awarding of the prize was followed by a sym- 
posium of ghost stories original or otherwise. A 
popular novel was presented to the player whose tale 
was adjudged most hair-raising. Corn was popped 
and marshmallows were toasted on pointed sticks. 
Just before adjourning for supper a clever amateur 
reader dressed in old-time costume came quietly out 
from the shadows and delighted the company with 
several love poems, among them Owen Meredith's 
' ^ Aux Italiens. ' ' Two of the recitations were delivered 
with an accompaniment of low music. 

Supper was served at little tables by candle-light 
and consisted of sandwiches, cider, coffee, cookies, 
nuts and other such homely good things. 

To arrange the social as a money raiser, plan to sell 
faggots at five cents each which guests may purchase 
to keep the fire blazing throughout the evening. Sell 
also candles for lighting the room and refreshments at 
five cents a portion. If desired, there might be an 
admission charge of ten cents a head. 



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SOCIALS FOR FEBRUARY 

During the month of February, when we begin to 
look forward with longing to the termination of Jack 
Frost's reign in the land, a social that is timely and 
very pretty is a Tropical Evening. If you can secure 
any local artistic talent, have the invitations decorated 
with tiny sketches representing palm trees under which 
dusky natives sit plying palm-leaf fans. 

Below the drawing write this brilliant exposition 
of the object of the affair: 

'Tis money sets the mare in motion 

And lack of it started this tropical notion. 

A Tropical Reception. At Sunday School Hall, 

Friday, February 6, at 8.30 P. M. 
Entrance and supper, fifty cents. 

To produce the effect of luxuriant tropical arbores- 
cence, borrow as many potted palms, India-rubber 
plants, etc., as possible. Artificial growths, if equa- 
torial in character, are very good for the purpose. 
With paper flowers and vines create bowers of southern 
luxuriance, and overhead have paper lanterns and fairy- 
lamps for the necessary charming glow. Have garden 
benches arranged around as if out of doors and plenty 
of fans and sofa pillows. 

Boys with burnt cork complexion and dressed in 
white serve the tea and wafers or lemonade which the 



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entrance fee includes. Later on comes supper at 
little tables in another room similarly trimmed. 
Music on stringed instruments, and vocal quartets, 
etc., during the evening add to the pleasure of the 
occasion. 

A VALENTINE POST-OFFICE 

For a money-making social held on St. Valentine's 
Day quite a little money can be taken in, and a most 
enjoyable program furnished, where the guests are 
young unmarried folk, by a Valentine Post-office. 
The Post-office is a booth made of a large packing-box 
turned on end and covered with pink crepe paper, 
roses and hearts. There should be a window, for 
which cardboard will serve, and a pretty, quick- 
witted girl appointed postmistress. In advance of 
the entertainment original valentines are solicited 
for the young people of both sexes to be sold at from 
two to five cents each according to what it is thought 
the company is prepared to pay. The postmistress 
should have a list of those whose valentines are for 
sale hung up outside of her window and the first to 
apply for any item on the list should have the privilege 
of buying it on payment of the listed price. 

When the first mail has been distributed in this way, 
all guests should have the privilege of sending valen- 
tines through the Post-office to members of the com- 
pany present. Such missives can only be written on 



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note-paper furnished by the postmistress at two cents 
a sheet, envelope one cent more, and stamp (for which 
the postmistress may sell canceled ones), two cents 
more. Pen and ink are furnished free of charge, or 
they may be ^^ rented." 

Refreshments, coming last of all, cost ten or fifteen 
cents, according to what you elect to have in the way 
of viands. Thus hot chocolate and heart-shaped sand- 
wiches filled with cream cheese and chopped nuts 
could be sold at ten cents, while rolled tongue sand- 
wiches and lemonade might be priced at fifteen cents. 



A SIMPLE MONEYMAKER FOR WASHING- 
TON'S BIRTHDAY 

The fun of a Washington's Birthday Social and the 
profit as well might be based on an amusing fine. 
This feature is kept a complete secret until all those 
expected are on the scene. The entertainer then calls 
on every one to perform some feat in honor of immortal 
George, the feat having been previously agreed on. 

For instance, each may be required to make a 
sketch of the Father of His Country or to cut a sil- 
houette of his dignified physiognomy from cardboard 
or paper. Two ladies, costumed respectively as Co- 
lumbia and Martha Washington, to raise a laugh, are 
appointed judges. All contestants whose work is 
passed by them are eligible to draw for some trifling 



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prize, but all who fail to pass, and you may be sure 
that the greater part will fail under the watchful 
scrutiny of these ladies, are fined from five to twenty- 
five cents each. The fine imposed is the same for 
each guest, of course, but it should be imposed with a 
view to what the particular company being enter- 
tained will feel able to contribute to the good cause. 

Those who prefer a veritable contest instead of a 
comic one might arrange a series of dates relating to 
Washington's career — his birth and death, etc. — 
which the competitors must give correctly or submit 
to a fine. 

Home-made booklets with maxims from George 
Washington in fancy lettering on the pages have been 
found to sell well at ten cents each on this occasion. 
Finish each wee book prettily with ribbon and have a 
single quotation on each page. Another good seller 
is made by obtaining the penny print portrait of the 
great man, mounting it on a square of art cardboard 
and finishing with a tiny calendar, or a quotation 
written in gilt letters. 

Another popular novelty is a small cotton flag with 
a head of George Washington painted or cut out and 
pasted thereon. 

A further intake comes with refreshments. Plan 
the menu to tempt all classes of visitors. Twenty- 
five cents is a popular price, and while the purchasing 
power of any small sum varies according to locality 



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and season, the following could easily be offered in 
most places for this amount. 

Creamed Oysters on Toast. Cucumbers. Oysterettes. 

Pineapple Salad. French Dressing. Dutch Cake. 

Coffee. 



SOCIALS FOR EASTER 

A SOCIABLE AND A FAIR FOUNDED ON THE 
EASTER LILY 

Members of a progressive church and Sunday school 
devised a plan for raising money at Easter season, 
which, although an experiment, turned out very suc- 
cessfully. It contained the germ of an idea for other 
committees which, although good at carrying out a 
plan when presented, lack the power to originate. 

The event was heralded by green and white posters 
tacked up in public places and decorated in a design 
of Easter lilies, while invitations, printed on white 
cards shaped in outline like the lovely blooms them- 
selves, were sent to all church members likely to be 
interested. Purchase of a ticket costing but twenty- 
five cents admitted the buyer to the social event in 
the school hall, with refreshments and a souvenir, 
and to the adjoining room where the lily fair was held. 



22 Money-making Entertainments 

Green for Trimming 

Both rooms were prettily trimmed with garlands 
of green and white tissue paper caught up at intervals 
with big bunches of crepe-paper lilies fashioned by 
the nimble feminine fingers of the congregation. 
Each member of the committee undertook to supply 
one or more flowering Easter lilies in pots to be sold 
for the good of the cause. 

These flowers with nicely covered pots made up the 
stock in trade of the lily sale and were sold at regular 
market prices. A few remaining over toward the 
close of the evening were auctioned off to the highest 
bidder. Meanwhile in the adjoining amusement hall 
an appropriate program was being given. This began 
with a short paper on the ^^ Story of the Lily/' illus- 
trated with tableaux. This was followed by some 
well rendered Easter music and a lily drill performed 
by the young girls of the congregation. The per- 
formers were dressed in white with green trimmings 
and each carried a long beautiful lily spray. It was 
all very graceful and pretty and won much applause. 

The Social Program 
The second part of the program was purely social. 
It began with games, one of which consisted in bhnd- 
folding the players and sending each in turn armed 
with a pair of scissors to clip a lily from an artificial 
plant of extraordinary size specially prepared for the 



For Church and Charity 23 

game. Each blossom contained an inexpensive gift 
or fortune, and any one who succeeded in clipping one 
retained the contents of the calyx as a souvenir of 
the evening. 

During another round cards and pencils were passed 
and each player had ten minutes in which to think up 
a quotation about a lily and the name of the author. 
Bell signals were sounded at the beginning and end of 
the ten-minute round and all who succeeded in remem- 
bering a verse or an apt phrase about the appropriate 
bloom drew for the possession of a beautiful natural 
plant with numerous flowers. 

The Lily White Table 

White and green were the colors chosen for the 
buffet table on which the refreshments were set forth. 
The centerpiece consisted of the blossom of the hour 
in vases of green Bohemian glass. There were white 
rolled sandwiches tied with pale green ribbon, and 
others square in shape. 

Almost all the viands were donated by tradesmen 
interested in the church work. Quantities of little 
cakes iced in white and green and of the most delicious 
sort were the contribution of a neighborhood baker, 
while the local confectioner supplied free of cost the 
httle individual blocks of ice-cream welded white and 
green. Tea, coffee, and chocolate were poured by 
several popular patronesses of the affair. 



24 Money-making Entertainments 

Here's A New Flower Show 
Girls who want to earn money for their church or a 
charity can do it during the spring season in a novel 
way. Let each girl costume as a flower, looking her 
prettiest, while each man on the evening of the enter- 
tainment pays twenty-five cents to purchase a posy. 
This payment could entitle the swain to the first and 
last dances on the program with his chosen flower. 
Or, if a comic plan is preferred, let each girl represent 
a different item in the seedman's catalogue. Some 
are flowers, others vegetables, while the men are 
gardeners. Each man paying twenty-five cents re- 
ceives a gaudy envelope of the kind that seeds come 
in. When this is opened the horticultural name of the 
girl purchased is found there. He must recognize her 
by her costume — the vegetables inspire very novel 
and pretty dresses, by the way. To add further to 
the proceeds of the evening, appetizing cold suppers 
packed in new flower-pots may be sold at twenty-five 
cents a flower-pot. 



A HONEYSUCKLE TEA 

For any week while the woodbine is in bloom a 
honeysuckle tea makes a charming little entertain- 
ment. 

The ideal setting is, of course, a porch embowered, 
as so many are at this season, with the lovely vine. 



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although with a generous supply of the fragrant blooms 
to distribute around in bowls and vases it may also be 
given indoors. 

A conventional invitation, such as the hostess's 
visiting card, with the day, place, and hour and the 
words ^'Honeysuckle Tea" in the lower left-hand cor- 
ner, will serve every purpose. 

On the other hand, special cards, decorated with 
sprays of honeysuckle in water color, are extremely 
pretty. The invitation on these may be couched in 
rhyme, of which the following is a hasty illustration, 
and fancy lettering may be used: 

"Honeysuckle time again, 

Porch is all a bower. 
Why leave its sweetness, say, 

To the tippler bee? 
If you love the blossoms, too, 

Come and spend an hour 
Or so (quite informally) 

Thursday next, at three. 
With honeysuckle fragrance, 

Breezes, talk and tea — " 

This is followed by the number of the house and the 
street. 

Try to have on the porch, in addition to the coolest 
chairs and chintz-covered cushions, a wicker table, 
on which are placed fans, a bowl of iced tea decorated 
with a wreath of honeysuckle, and any little puzzles, 



26 Money-making Entertainments 

novelties, or oddities which have been recently dis- 
covered, as these make the best form of summer en- 
tertainment for a group of women. 

Or the guests can be required to make pencil 
sketches of a bowl of honeysuckle sprays, with the 
bowl itself as a prize for the best sketch. Another 
idea is to form smaller words from the word '^honey- 
suckle " or to write down all the allusions to bees, 
honey, or honeysuckle in literature, poetry, and fable 
which can be recalled in half an hour. Each who wins 
a point in these contests should be eligible to draw 
for a prize, say a bottle of strained honey, prettily 
wrapped and tied, or a large bouquet of honey- 
suckle bound with ribbon. 

Or the amusement, founded on appropriate allu- 
sions, etc., might take the form of a pad-and-pencil 
game in question and answers, for which the queries 
that follow will serve to give the idea. 

1. What Queen is on record as being fondest of 
honey? The Queen in ''Sing a Song of Sixpence." 

2. What great general had as his emblem a bee? 
Napoleon. 

3. What phrase appropriate to this game expresses 
a fixed idea? "Bee in one's bonnet.'^ 

4. What is the sweetest time of life? The honey- 
moon. 

5. What famous beverage is made of honey? Mead 
or metheglin. 



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6. Who sang: ^' Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck 
I?" Ariel in ^^The Tempest." 

7. Fill in the missing words in these lines from 
Milton: 

"The bee with , 

That at her flowery work doth sing?" 

Answer, honied thigh. 

8. Who wrote the following of the bee: 

"Oh, velvet bee, you're a dusty fellow 
YouVe powdered your legs with gold"? 

Jean Ingelow. 

9. Who called the bee: 

" Sailor of the atmosphere 
Swimmer through the waves of air, 
Voyager of light and noon, 
Epicurean of June "? 

Emerson. 

10. From what author is the following verse ex- 
tracted : 

"How sweetly smells the honeysuckle. 
In the hushed night as if the world were one 
Of utter peace and love and gentleness"? 

From Tennyson, '^Gareth and Lynette." 



28 Money-making Entertainments 

A bottle of honeysuckle perfume would make an 
attractive prize in this round. 

Toward 5 o'clock the guests are conducted indoors 
for refreshments. Serve these on a table decorated 
with bowls of honeysuckle, the flowering ends of which 
are trailed here and there over the cloth and have in 
store a little boutonniere of the same, if preferred in 
combination with roses, for each guest. The bouquets 
can be tied with narrow ribbon in graceful loops. 

Over the refreshment table a honeysuckle canopy 
or arbor effect can be arranged to add to the daintiness 
of the occasion. 

The paper honeysuckle is employed here as the 
hostess will not want to injure her vines by further 
depredation. 

For refreshments, among other good things edible 
and drinkable, have hot tea, sweetened with honey; 
metheglin, bread and honey sandwiches, honey cake, 
cookies shaped like bees, and any sort of bonbons 
preferred. 

To make money by a function of this kind sell re- 
freshments at ten cents a portion; sell also fans, 
bouquets of honeysuckle, bottles of strained honey, 
and Maeterlinck's ''History of The Bee." 



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SUMMER SOCIALS 

A GREENWOOD FESTIVAL, TEMPUS ROBIN 

HOOD 

A charmingly picturesque entertainment arranged 
by the members of a fashionable church in the suburbs 
was a Greenwood Festival, tempus Robin Hood and 
his merry men. 

Invitations were engraved in Old English text and 
were made to fold over in quaint old-time style without 
envelopes, fastening with seals. The form ran some- 
what after this plan: 

"When shawes beene sheene and shadds full fayre 
And leaves both large and longe 
It is merry walking in the fayre forrest 
To hear the small birdes songe. 
Then they cast on their gownes of greene 
And tooke theyr bows each one, 
And they away to the greene forrest, 
A shooting forth are gone. 

"Robin Hood and the Merry Men invite you right heartily 
to attend their festival under the greenwood tree (at 55 Cheney 
Avenue, next Thursday fortnight at 3:30 p. m.). Please bring 
your bow and arrows with you." 

The largest portion of the guests taking inspiration 
from the invitation elected to come in some simple 
adaptation of early EngUsh costume. 



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In addition to the famous character, Robin himself, 
Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, Littlejohn and Scarlet, 
there were hosts of dainty shepherdesses, bold yeomen, 
hostile sheriffs, nuns and other legendary folk. 

The company was received on a pretty stretch of 
green lawn with a background of tall trees which 
afforded an ideal setting for such a fete. 

The target set up four feet from the ground on a 
tripod occupied a prominent position, and when all 
those expected had arrived and some little time had 
been devoted to conversation the contest in archery 
commenced. 

The color circles on the target (from the center out- 
ward) were golden (bull's-eye) counting 9 points, red 
7 points, blue 5 points, black 3 points, white 2. 

Some of the competitors brought self-constructed 
bows, others the purchased article, including the 
famous Spanish yew, which makes the best implement 
of all. 

Archery sets, of course, can always be ordered 
through the shops, but for the event described each 
brought his own as before mentioned, and the target 
was one of home fashioning. It consisted of a pad 
of straw covered with green cloth and having the colors 
painted directly on the cloth. 

Each archer was requested to mark his arrows so as 
to be able to recognize them when the time for the 
count came. 



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Each marksman had three shots at the target, and 
there were four rounds. 

To the one hitting highest a choice volume of old 
ballads, embracing those of Robin Hood, was pre- 
sented. 

The supper that followed later in the evening to 
refresh the bowmen after their labors was served in 
true picnic fashion upon a cloth spread upon the green- 
sward. 

Nor were the viands unbefitting a life under the 
greenwood tree, except, perhaps, in point of chronology 
and localization. 

The archers enjoyed planked fish and roast fowl, 
potatoes in their jackets, and green corn baked in the 
husk, with biscuit, coffee, and ginger beer. 

The ladies of the party decorated the cloth with a 
charming tracery of vines and flowers freshly gathered 
for the purpose, and supper was announced by the 
merry winding of the horn. 

At intervals Robin and his fellow outlaws sang 
selections from the opera of "Robin Hood," having 
previously rehearsed this agreeable feature of the fun. 



A PORCH PARTY AND PAGEANT FOR JULY 
FOURTH 

For a Fourth of July porch party a novel idea would 
be to celebrate the birthday of Columbia. The hostess 



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should impersonate Columbia for the occasion, and 
the invitations, which are issued ten days in advance 
of the date, are worded like this: 

"Columbia presents her compliments, and requests the 
pleasure of Mrs. James Green's presence at a porch party in 
honor of her birthday, July 4, 1913. The admission charge of 
fifty cents will go toward new pews and other repairs in the 
church. The favor of an early reply is requested." 

Decorate the porch with paper liberty bells swung 
on garlands of green leaves. Newel posts and arches 
should be ^^festivated" with small cotton flags in 
clusters. Have a porch table set forth with fans, and 
a bowl of lemonade or fruit punch. Beside the bowl, 
which can be wreathed with red, white, and blue 
flowers, have a tray with tumblers and let the ladle 
have a gay knot of tricolored ribbon. If a blue punch- 
bowl can be obtained, red cherries floating in the 
lemonade will complete the color scheme. 

A Pageant for the CmLDREN 
Columbia might arrange quite a pretty little enter- 
tainment for her birthday guests. For instance, chil- 
dren might perform on the lawn in front of the porch 
a pretty pageant or play called ^'The Progress of the 
Liberty Bell." Important events that have transpired 
since the Liberty Bell first proclaimed its great mes- 
sage through the land could be represented in a series 



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of tableaux, first of all. This could be followed by a 
comic feature — a Firecracker Drill, where small boys 
costumed as firecrackers go through a lively march 
and dance. If there are clever debaters in the neigh- 
borhood, have a debate as to what is really the na- 
tional anthem. Let the contestants prepare their 
arguments in advance, and then have a ballot cast 
among the guests to decide which side has best proved 
its case. The winners could receive laurel crowns in 
token of their victory. 



AN AUGUST LEMON SQUEEZE 

For the social where there is arborescence nothing 
could be more delightful than a lemon squeeze. 

The main requirements are an abundance of cold 
refreshing lemonade and some nice sweet wafers or 
tiny cakes. 

The entertainment should be heralded by posters 
or announcements which show lemon trees or branches 
of these with the yellow fruit growing thereon, giving 
the day and date, the whereabouts of the gathering, 
and the admission price. 

Such information is sometimes couched in rhyme 
which makes it more catchy to many minds. The 
following will give just an idea of how the doggerel 
verse should run. It may be of any length desired 
and in any metre. 
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We beg to announce our Lemon Squeeze, 

To occur next Thursday under the trees, 

On the lawn of Hotel Fairview. 

Like water the cold lemonade will flow, 

The cakes and confections will not be "for show," 

And many amusing stunts will please — 

So we hope to welcome you. 

The price is a quarter dollar bright, 

The time 3 p. m. (till fading light 

Cuts short our play) 

Open to all who like lemonade. 

Drink your fill of it — once youVe paid. 

Please remember the place and the day. 

Among the various amusements which make up 
the program have some little natural bush on the lawn 
converted into a lemon tree by the addition of big 
lemons made of crepe paper and cotton batting. At 
the heart of each lemon is a ^^ fortune" written in 
rhyme and made comic. The person who purchases 
a lemon for five cents receives the fruit with fortune 
intact and the prophecy is understood to apply to him. 

Have also lemon races where lemons are carried on 
tablespoons very rapidly across a stretch of green- 
sward and back to the starting point, with souvenirs 
for those who perform the feat three times without 
dropping their lemons. 

If lemonade and cake are not thought sufl&cient to 
regale the guests, many delicacies might appropriately 
be added to the list. Here are some of them : 



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Chicken sandwiches with wafer-thin slices of lemon enclosed. 
Lemon meringue pie or tartlets. 

Salad served in lemon skins or salad (as of fish) garnished with 
half moons of lemon. 

Gelatin served in lemon cups. 

Lemon water-ice. 

Lemon layer cake, or sponge cakes with lemon icing. 

Lemon drops. 

Tea with lemon instead of cream — ^Russian fashion. 



PAGEANTS AND PROGRAMS FOR LABOR DAY 

Labor Day being a holiday in every part of "These 
United States" is steadily becoming more popular 
as the date for all kinds of entertainments, formal and 
informal, and little jollifications of various kinds. 

In honor of the dignity — and pleasure — of whole- 
some toil there will be this year pageants in our school 
yards, even though the institutions of learning remain 
closed, house parties at roomy homes out of town, 
with luncheons, socials and other good times in town 
house or apartment. 

A charming pageant to be carried out by the chil- 
dren and young people of from ten to eighteen shows 
the inception, development and progress of labor in 
the various ages, beginning v/ith the earliest times 
when costume was rough and implements of machinery 
rude, down to the wonderful emancipation and growth 
of to-day. 



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A smaller and less pretentious version of the idea 
is a costume party to which all those invited are asked 
to come as artisans or toilers of some kind. The 
various branches of labor can be represented by groups 
of the costumed players. Until one has attended such 
a gathering it is almost impossible to realize how 
effective the costumes of many of our fellow laborers 
are or can be made. 

A delightful program could be arranged where, as 
is often the case, the neighborhood or the circle of 
acquaintance boasts a little agreeable talent, by asking 
each group to come prepared to add to the program 
of the evening. 

Where the young people are accustomed to taking 
part in performances, the selection of a characteristic 
amusement can safely be left to each band of workers. 
Where this is not the case the hostess may be called 
into consultation. 

Hasty illustrations of such adaptations would be: — 

The Blacksmiths — Anvil Chorus. 

The Spinners — Spinning Wheel Song. 

The Milliners or Dressmakers — Clever monologues 
satirizing hat or costume clients and their ways. 

The Hod Carriers — A drill with papier-mache hods. 

The Shoemakers — Clog dances. 

The Sailors — Illustrated travelog. 

The Artists— Chalk talk. 

A jolly way to end such a program is to have the 



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cooks or chefs of the group prepare an impromptu 
chafing dish supper, which feature would have to be 
arranged in advance. 



A SQUIRREL SOCIAL 

A splendid pay social for any time during the 
Autumn is a Squirrel affair. Send out announcements 
cut from brown paper in the shape of autumn leaves 
and having little squirrels sketched on them in white 
paint. The wording may be as follows: 

"Nuts are ripe now. Come play squirrel. All the nuts 
you can eat for ten cents. The Morrisville Sunday School 
Hall, Thursday, Oct. 8th, at 8 o'clock p. m." 

Have the floor strewn with dead leaves under which 
all kinds of nuts are hidden. Decorate the walls with 
branches of autumn leaves, to which more nuts are 
attached with dark thread. Chestnut burs containing 
real nuts add to the reahsm. Hide nuts wherever a 
nook occurs and let all who pay the ten cents admis- 
sion fee hunt for these and enjoy them. 

Sell peanut brittle and other kinds of nut candy in 
cornucopias, baskets or boxes. Later sell nut sand- 
wiches and nut cake and give a choice of coffee or 
lemonade with any purchase of the kind. 

For amusements have a game in guessing what 
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which are displayed came from. The game of squirrel 
will also be found diverting. These are the rules. 
Divide the company into two bands. Give each band 
a basket containing eight nuts. Also an empty re- 
ceptacle of the same kind for each band. The par- 
ticipants sit facing each other in two lines. When 
the signal is given the players at the head of the line 
must pass the nuts in the full basket one at a time but 
as rapidly as possible to the player next to him. This 
player, likewise, when he has received the full number, 
but not before, passes them to the next one in line and 
so on until the empty basket is reached. Then, if 
so agreed on in advance they must be passed back in 
the same way. The band first to send all their nuts 
along the line to the basket in which they originally 
were win the game. 



A PINEWOODS PAY PICNIC 

This pleasurable little entertainment is most 
suitable for the fall among the pines or in mountain 
resorts and quite a little can be taken in by it. Invita- 
tions should be decorated with tiny pine trees or sprays 
of pine and each should have a quotation from the 
poets in praise of pine trees. 

Balsam pine is stripped and made into pillows and 
orders for the pillows are taken. Orders for pine 
cones to burn on the hearth are also taken and the 



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picnickers search for these storing them away in sacks 
of cheesecloth. 

The committee of arrangements should provide a 
lunch or supper which is vended to the picnickers at 
so much a portion. Coffee is made on an oil stove 
and sold at five cents the tin cup. Sandwiches are 
five cents each, cake five cents a slice, bacon for toast- 
ing is sold at a cent a strip and bread one cent a slice. 
Roast potatoes might be two cents each and apples 
I cent. 

The proceeds of the lunch are added to those of the 
pillows and the cones and all go towards the good cause 
under consideration. 



SOCIALS FOR HALLOWE'EN 

A SHADOW AUCTION 

A simple and yet very enjoyable way for ten or 
twenty couples to have a good time is by a shadow 
auction. The only requirement is that the number of 
each sex be exactly equal. Each girl brings a basket 
lunch for two people. When the time for the auction 
arrives the girls are conducted into an adjoining room. 
Between this and the parlor a large sheet is stretched 
taut to form a shadow curtain. Behind this curtain 
the girls pass one at a time each giving some little 



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performance as of dancing, posturing, etc. Each 
girl wears a headdress, carries a parasol, and adopts 
any other means of rendering her shadow a little 
dijB&cult to distinguish. The men buy in the shadows 
which are ^' cried" by someone acting as auctioneer. 
Bidding starts at one cent. The shadow supposed 
to be that of a specially popular or pretty girl can often 
be run up by the auctioneer to quite a figure in pennies. 
When each man has purchased a shadow the fair 
partner thus obtained is brought out to him from be- 
hind the scenes and when all have found partners each 
girl shares her basket supper with her purchaser. 

Trilby Auction 
Another popular plan is a Trilby Auction where the 
girls are ranged behind a curtain which is lifted just 
high enough from the floor to reveal the feet. Each 
man bids in a pair of feet and, of course, the owner 
thereof becomes his partner, providing the supper, 
etc., as before. 



A HAUNTED HOUSE PARTY— FOR 
HALLOWE'EN 

What better fun for your Hallowe'en celebration 
than a haunted-house party! Let the fun begin 
with the invitations, which are made from thin white 
or gray cardboard. Cut out cards in the shape of 



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wee houses, the architecture anything you Hke, the 
funnier the better. Mark in doors and windows with 
ink and pen. On the reverse side of each house write 
an invitation after this fashion: 

"The old house at the corner of Main Street and Wayne 
Avenue is reported to be haunted. You are requested to make 
one of an investigating party which will meet there on Hal- 
lowe'en night to examine into the cause of the weird lights and 
white figures recently seen there. The investigators will 
assemble at eight-thirty sharp. (Admission twenty-five 
cents.)" 

Of course, the description of the haunted house and 
the address given will fit the home of the entertainer 
who plans the party. 

Let the arriving guests find the house closed and 
dark. About the time the company begins to as- 
semble, weird lights produced by flashes of a dark 
lantern should appear at upper-story windows. 
Presently, with a noise as of rumbling thunder, made 
by shaking a piece of sheet-tin, the door is thrown open 
and the hostess, attired as a specter, appears in the 
doorway. Placing her finger on her lips she says in a 
sepulchral tone, ^^ Follow me!" 

It would be fun to plan a very circuitous route 
through the dimly lighted rooms over which, to the 
accompaniment of more thunder, the ghost might lead 
her guests. She should set a rapid pace as in the good 
old game of "Follow My Leader." The spirit, being 



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familiar with the route, will have no difficulty in 
keeping ahead, and from time to time it might seem 
to disappear, materializing again as the investigators 
hesitate, uncertain of their direction. The chase 
comes to an end in some unexpected place — the cellar, 
for instance, where some novel form of diversion could 
be arranged for all, or perhaps at the door of the parlor, 
where preparations for games have been made. One 
of the newest and most thrilling Hallowe'en games is 
^'Thread of Fate." Every one in the party can share 
in it. 

The threads of fate are represented by lengths of 
black and yellow ribbon or string, one for each guest. 
Have the loose end of the threads arranged in some 
effective fashion. For instance, a large bat con- 
structed of cotton wadding and brown silesia could be 
suspended from the ceiling with wings outspread and 
the ends of the threads which players are to take 
caught to the sharp points of the wings. Having 
selected a thread (the black are for men and the yellow 
for girls) each fate-seeker proceeds to follow where 
it leads, disentangling it as he goes. Each thread 
should lead a long and unexpected route, both indoors 
and out, sometimes crossing other threads, sometimes 
alone. At the end of his thread the Hallo we 'ener 
will find an envelope, decorated with witch-cats cut 
from black paper and other mystic symbols of the 
hour. On opening the envelope he finds eight or ten 



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words clipped from a newspaper which when correctly- 
arranged in the form of a sentence will give a prophecy 
for the future. None of the words should be capital- 
ized, as this adds to the difficulty and the amusement 
of working out one's fortune. 



A SPIRITISTIC SOCIAL FOR HALLOWE'EN 

A Spiritistic Frolic 
An original ghost frolic is heralded by invitations 
written in the following form: 

"The pleasure of Miss Hannah Browning^s company is re- 
quested at a Spiritistic Seance on October 29th at 9.00 p. m. 

The celebrated medium, Madame (insert name of hostess), 

will conduct the seance. Please come dressed as a spirit. 
Silver offering will be taken for St. Mark^s Guild.'' 

The girls, wearing the usual sheet and pillow-case 
disguise, are conducted into the back parlor, while 
the young men are received in the front. A curtain 
divides the two rooms, or a little "cabinet" such as 
spiritualists employ at their seances is constructed 
from a large packing-box with the bottom removed 
so that only the frame remains. Drape this with 
shawls or anything handy. 

Each spirit delivers up to the medium some little 
article of personal belongings — a handkerchief, brooch 
or glove, to be used in the seance and afterward re- 



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turned to her. These articles are placed on a table 
in the room where the young men are gathered. 
Lifting each article singly the medium describes a 
spirit which she sees hovering around it — that of the 
owner, of course. If any young man wishes to con- 
verse with the spirit described, he is handed the hand- 
kerchief or brooch, and the spirit is led out to him 
through the cabinet. This pairing-off creates much 
fun, and all kinds of romantic deductions are drawn. 
When all in this way have found Hallowe'en mates 
(with whom, by the way, they afterward go in to 
supper), the seance breaks up and general games are 
indulged in. 

The Mystic Ball 
For this game have a huge ball of black and yellow, 
made by sewing together strips of silesia torn as for 
rag carpet. As you wind the ball, wind in all kinds of 
small articles which can be interpreted as fortunes. 
A thimble, a button, a penny, and so on. All fate- 
delvers draw their chairs up in the form of a circle. 
The hostess tosses the ball to some one in the circle 
and this person must begin to unwind it, continuing 
until some emblem drops out. This emblem, when 
properly interpreted, will hint at his or her fortune. 
The ball is then tossed to some one else in the circle, 
who unwinds as before, and this continues until all 
have found fortunes. 



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Snatching of Fate 

A Kvely game is one where a cord is stretched tight 
across the doorway, and other cords, to which are 
attached a doughnut, a ball of cotton, an apple and 
an orange are dropped from it. Kneeling and with 
eyes closed, the players endeavor to snap one of the 
swinging emblems. If the orange is caught, the fate- 
seeker will enjoy wealth ; if the doughnut, life for him 
will be easy and sweet; if the apple, happiness is in 
store; but any one biting the cotton will die unwed. 

Here's a scheme for decorating the Hallowe'en sup- 
per-table that costs Kttle and is full of laughs. For the 
centerpiece use a toy hay-cart which may be had for 
ten cents in any top-shop, or make one yourself out 
of a grape-basket. To this chariot harness six steeds 
made of vegetables, with beads for eyes and matches 
or toothpicks for legs. Load the hay-wagon with 
papier-mache fruits filled with either candy or fortunes. 
These may be taken home as souvenirs. 

For the candlesticks, cut pieces off the stem ends 
of carrots so they will stand pat, hollow out the tops 
and insert a candle in each. Make a vegetable beastie 
for each cover. Your ingenuity may have full play 
in devising these. Potatoes, radishes — any vegetables 
you may have on hand — may be used for the body, 
toothpicks or matches for the legs, and the ink-well 
or water-color box may be pressed into service for 
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beasties are, the more fun they will provoke. Tie 
a place-card with a guest's name written on it around 
the neck of each one. 



SELLING FORTUNES ON HALLOWE'EN 

A clever plan was adopted by one young woman for 
a Hallowe'en church social of money-making intent. 
This was a cobweb party. The hostess took cords of 
different shades and colors, one for each guest, and 
wound them over furniture, doorways, etc., through 
the different rooms on the lower floor. At one end of 
each string she tied an envelope containing a "fortune." 
The red, yellow and brown cords, with all the varying 
tints of these colors, had fortunes for the men, while 
white, blue and green, turquoise, emerald and the 
like denoted the envelopes for the girls. All cords 
began in the drawing room, where each fortune hunter 
selected his own according to fancy after paying a 
quarter dollar. Although the cords were never 
knotted or tied in any way, the maze and tangle was 
so dense at times that the sport of the evening lasted 
a good two hours. No one was allowed to touch the 
fate thread of another player. This regulation added 
greatly to the difficulty and the fun. The fortunes 
were concocted in the fertile brain of the hostess. When 
all the envelopes had been discovered the young 
people assembled and the prophecies were read aloud. 



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An amusing little trick was perpetrated by the girls 
upon the men. One of the girls appeared in the parlor 
costumed as a gypsy and offered with much ceremony 
to tell each young man the name of his future spouse 
for five cents. When the money had been duly paid, 
each received a sealed envelope. These envelopes 
were opened simultaneously and each contained a slip 
of paper on which was the name of the purchaser 
preceded by the word ^^Mrs." Merely this and noth- 
ing more. 

A DEAR HUNT 

The deer in the case are the girls of the party. You 
may write it ^^ dear " if you Hke, and put it in the plural, 
as a merry little pun on the word is involved in the 
title. 

There must be exactly the same number of men and 
girls, and the latter must be asked to come at least 
thirty minutes earlier than the time set in the men's 
note of invitation. 

When the men arrive the girls are, of course, all on 
the scene, but each maiden has hidden her fair self 
away in some quiet nook either out of doors or on the 
lower floor within. Each girl is furnished with a deer 
head made of brown crepe paper with openings for 
the eyes, mouth, etc., which, however, she need not 
don until the winding of the hunting horn in the dis- 
tance gives warning that the chase has begun. 



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The men of the party receive hunters' caps in sports- 
man ^^pink" crepe paper made over cardboard, and 
little riding whips, and there must be a hunter's horn, 
too, which some one is skilled in blowing. A coaching 
horn makes a good one. 

Before the start each man is given a slip of paper 
on which is written the name of a certain girl whom he 
will be required to capture before going in search of 
other game. After having captured the one allotted 
to him he may pursue and take as many more deer as 
he can find. 

The men pay twenty-five cents each for "hunters 
licenses" it is explained, and each girl brings a basket 
supper for two to be shared with some hunter after the 
chase. 

Of course, the girls will have chosen retreats as out 
of the way as possible and a lively chase is the result. 
The man who captures most game in that time could 
win a desk ornament, a stamp box, inkstand, or blot- 
ting pad holder with decoration of hunting insignia, 
while those who fail to "run down" the quarry al- 
lotted to them are given little tin horns, which they 
are required to blow in chorus. The girl last to be 
found could also win a prize, and the first one captured a 
comic booby, but these rewards must come as surprises. 

Let the supper table for center-piece have a bed 
of greenery, from which project a number of little 
deer heads tied with "pink" ribbons. 



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CHRISTMAS SOCIALS 

A SALE OF CHRISTMAS GREENS AND A JOLLY 
NO L PARTY 

A wide-awake committee with an eye to business 
ordered a generous supply of Christmas greens and 
toys for the Christmas tree (the latter in the latest 
forms from the city), and then prepared to get people 
to come and buy. The affair was dated for Decem- 
ber 23d, and was held in the school hall. Invitations 
were issued well in advance, and took this form: 

Dear Miss McA- -ister 

It wou-d afford us great p-easure if you cou-d attend our 

sa-e of Christmas greens and toys and join in our No L Socia- 

afterwards on December 23d at seven thirty. If you can come 

p-ease -eave the twe-fth -etter of the a-phabet at home. 

Cordia — y yours, 

The Ways and Means Committee. 

The sale came first of all, of course, after which the 
social evening began with a spelling-bee for which all 
the players were arranged as for the old-fashioned con- 
test. It was greatly complicated by the rule that no 
one could mention the letter L, this being tabooed for 
the entire evening. Whenever this letter occurred in a 
word being spelled, the speller made a dash with his or 
her forefinger in the empty air to make the omission; 
for double L there were two dashes. Anyone who for- 
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got to eliminate his L's lost his place in class, and the 
player who had gained most promotion in the line 
when the bee was concluded won a prize. All of the 
prizes were articles in the names of which the twelfth 
letter of the alphabet was not used. The list of words 
propounded for the players to spell was arranged by 
the entertainer in advance of the party, and it con- 
tained as many L's as possible. 

Then they played the familiar anagram-game, where 
the letter-chips are placed face down in front of the 
dealer, who names a class-subject, as Great Men, be- 
fore turning up a chip. In the ordinary game it is the 
player first to give a name beginning with the letter 
turned up who wins the chip. In the No-L version 
the excitement and mirth were increased by the fact 
that to give a name including an L, as Alexander, 
Kipling, Pliny, Maximilian, meant a forfeit for the 
person naming it. These forfeits called for the sur- 
render of a chip to the pile, and if no chip was held at 
the moment of the mistake, the player ran in debt 
for one, to be paid when he obtained it. 

Another half-hour was spent in a new blindfold 
game, to arrange which the company was divided into 
two bands to act in opposition to each other. Each 
side had a blackboard, these boards being set up at 
different ends of the long room. It was the object of 
each division to write as many L's as possible on the 
blackboard of the opposition. This had to be done 



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blindfolded, chalk being handed to the contestant for 
the purpose. One player at a time was bKndfolded 
from each side, and any L which he or she succeeded 
in inscribing on the clear black of the enemy's terri- 
tory counted one point for the division to which the 
successful player belonged. 

For a company including elderly folk a reading-game 
might be had. Each player must read a page from a 
book which he has not prepared, omitting all the L 
words. Wherever these occur, make a buzzing noise. 

Finally, all those among the guests whose names 
(Christian or surname) contained the letter L were 
arraigned before the Noeltide bar and condemned to 
expiate the offense by a stunt. The hostess, who acted 
as taskmaster, called upon each for a stunt which was 
in the line of his recognized talent, and a very agree- 
able little impromptu performance was the result. 

Then followed a supper in which the names of all 
refreshments containing the letter L were barred. 



A CHRISTMAS CARD SOCIAL 

A Christmas postoffice is jolly good fun under many 
conditions. Where there is a large crowd to be 
entertained at home nothing could be better than to 
distribute gifts and mementos of various kinds, and 
Christmas mails would be equally popular as a Sunday 
school make-merry event. 



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The foundation of the post ofl&ce can be a specially 
constructed booth, or a large packing-box makes a 
very acceptable foundation. Whichever you choose, 
paint it green, or green and red, and trim profusely 
with holly and mistletoe. 

Who Shall be Postmaster? 

Someone costumed as Santa Claus is a splendid 
choice for postmaster. Let him beam upon the com- 
pany from behind his little wicket, which is thrown 
open from time to time to announce ^^ first mail," 
'^second mail," and so on, the announcement being 
accompanied by the jingling of a little bell. 

The more mail that can be mustered for every one 
the better the fun. All who are to attend the party 
could be notified in advance that parcels will be de- 
livered to whomsoever they are addressed by Santa, 
and, of course, the entertainer will prepare a set, how- 
ever simple, of her own. Christmas cards addressed 
to each one of the company will furnish material for 
mail, and will add to the fun. 

Instead of Santa 
Those who have introduced Santa at other parties 
in the past may change to another postmaster or 
mistress. For instance, a pretty girl, costumed as the 
Christmas angel or the Christmas fairy, with wings, 
will be unusual, or the Spirit of Christmas, all in red 



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and green, with holly at her belt or in her hair, may 
deliver the gifts and sound the little bell. 

Paper, ink, pens and envelopes may be provided, and 
all present invited to write Christmas letters to be de- 
posited at the postoflEice and delivered as the last mail. 
Each writes to any member of the party he desires to, 
and signs his name or not as preferred by the writer. 

The idea of the postoflfice may be combined with 
that of the pretty, genial Christmas card and the affair 
called a Christmas card party 

The Invitations 

In this case the proper background for the invita- 
tions are holiday cards, with appropriate scenes of 
winter and 3ailetide on the face. In the way of the 
bidding itself, all that is necessary is the name of the 
entertainer, club or society in the center of the card 
(that is, of the reverse side), with the address directly 
below, and the day, hour, etc., in the lower right-hand 
corner. In the lower left hand write the words 
'Xhristmas card party." 

After the distribution of the mail pass around pen- 
cils and pads and see who can write the prettiest senti- 
ment for a Christmas card. Award a Christmas cal- 
endar as a prize. 

A Search Game 
Get the very cheap cards which come at two for a 



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penny or the like, and cut out the figures. Hide the 
latter all around the room. Ring a bell twice with a 
fifteen-minute interval between tinkles, and during 
this time let all search for the hidden pictures. At 
the expiration of that time give each player a square 
or oblong of cardboard, provide scissors, mucilage, 
pen and ink, and announce that a prize will be awarded 
to the one who constructs the most pleasing Christ- 
mas card from the materials in hand. About half an 
hour should be allowed for this game. The pen and 
ink are provided in order that those who can do so 
may be enabled to fill in the missing links of their 
designs, and water colors, with brushes, may be added 
to the supplies if so desired. 

The Supper Table 

For supper have the table decorated to simulate a 
Christmas card of the pretty old-fashioned type. 
Have the cottage (paper) surrounded with snow- 
drifts, the small green pines and all the rest of the land- 
scape for the centerpiece, and trim the candle shades 
with designs cut from Christmas cards and appliqued 
on. Let couples pair off by matching halves of Christ- 
mas cards, and tie cards with names written on them 
to the back of each chair. 

It is extremely pretty and unusual when carried out 
in detail; cards are now so inexpensive that the cost 
is less than most affairs of the kind. 



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To Raise Coin 

The Sunday school or library club which wants to 
raise money at Yuletide this year may adopt the idea 
of the Christmas card, but carry it out rather differ- 
ently in order to bring in the dimes. Have a post- 
office where all the mail is ^^ overdue" 5 cents, so that 
each pays for his present, or the little bundle handed 
out to him. Then have Christmas cards on sale which 
members can purchase and address to each other 
through the medium of the mails. After the first mail 
nothing is held for postage due, and after that players 
have the privilege of addressing to each other free 
gifts, cards, letters, greetings and sketches — ^in fact, 
everything which the spirit of the season or the in- 
spiration of the moment suggests. 

Sell a simple supper later on at two, three or five 
cents a portion, according to the nature of the viand. 
Ham and tongue sandwiches, tied with Christmas 
ribbon, might retail at five cents, coffee and cocoa at 
two cents a cup, ice-cream in the little scarlet paper 
cups at five cents a portion, and red-iced cakes at five 
cents a plate for two. 

The prices herein quoted are, of course, reckoned 
upon the usual generous donation basis — the com- 
mittee obtaining both contributions of trifles for the 
postoffice packages and supplies of edibles "free, 
gratis, for nothing" to retail at supper. 



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A MERRIE ENGLAND REVEL FOR YULETIDE 

A good Yuletide money raiser would be a revel in 
Elizabethan style. Sell tickets at ten cents each, 
charge another dime apiece for the stage performance, 
or take up a silver offering, and last of all charge a 
small sum, say ten or fifteen cents, for the supper. 

Such a festivity, entailing medieval costume and at 
least a simulated Elizabeth menu, would be suggestive 
of the pageants now so fashionable in England and 
America, and would be breaking away completely 
from the stereotyped merry-makings of other years. 

Invitations should be in Old Enghsh type on parch- 
ment or a heavy linen imitation of the same. The 
sheet should be in proclamation form and no envelope 
used. It is folded twice lengthwise and the flap caught 
in place with a seal. The form of the invitation, too, 
would create fun if truly medieval in phraseology — 
with this for a model: 

Goode Friend: 

Thys is to let you wit, with Yuletide greetyngs, that in her 
royal progress through her realm of Merrie England, Her 
Majestic Queen Elizabeth will pause, as her custom is each 
yeare, to hold Christmas revels. This yeare it will be at her 
good Castle of (name of the hostess) Burney (22 Morningside 
Road) where Her Majestie will look to see you among the 
revelers. 
Master of Revels to Her Majestie, 

(Name of Hostess) H. C. Burney. 



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The details of many modern homes with their open 
fireplaces, spacious hall and sweeping stairways rising 
therefrom furnish all that is most to be desired for the 
medieval setting and even in the case of dwellings of 
older style much can be done without too great effort 
to recreate the times of the Maiden Queen and her 
court. 

Carpets and superfluous furniture should be re- 
moved from the scene of the festivities, the floors to be 
left bare or strewn with coarse straw or rushes, for 
such was the luxurious floor covering in the England of 
Elizabeth. Any wooden benches, carved furniture 
and chests which can be conveyed temporarily to the 
scene of action will undoubtedly help out with the 
effect, for which hunting trophies such as antlers or 
deer heads and weapons of early days are also valuable. 

Chairs, benches, and balustrades are twined with 
green garlands beloved of our forefathers, while as in 
the carol the holly bough hangs everywhere high; with 
Druidistical oak and mistletoe in abundance. Wher- 
ever possible, candles in wall sconces or separate sticks, 
that light of other days, should replace the modern 
gas jet or electrolier, and all hearths should glow with 
the fires of Yule with their perfume of resinous pine 
and cedar. 

Guests are asked to come in costume representing 
Elizabethan notabilities or simply in dress suggestive 
of Tudor times and modes. The hostess should im- 



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personate the Maiden Queen and those who make up 
her reception committee should be recognizable as 
Shakspere, Bacon, Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Lord 
Burleigh, Essex, Mary Queen of Scots, and other 
celebrities male and female. 

There should be a court jester who plays the hilari- 
ous role of Lord of Misrule, while the rank and file of 
the guests will form a motley host of knights and 
ladies, shepherds and shepherdesses, Colins and 
Daphnes, demons, crones, fairies, goblins, crusaders 
and hobby horses. Pantomimic figures with human 
motive power, such as prancing horses and snorting 
dragons, were prime favorites with our ancestors in 
their holiday revels, and St. George could come in 
conducting his own celebrated conquest of the chi- 
mera species with historical accuracy. 

Queen Bess should have a dais from which she de- 
scended to welcome the arriving guests, or to which the 
guest is conducted. 

First on the amusing program arranged for the 
guests come some of the oldest of English games which 
include such famous sports as Blindman's Buffet, 
Hunt the Slipper and Forfeits. Of course there will 
be a tray of burning raisins for Snapdragon with 
souvenirs for all who succeed in pulling them from the 
fire. 

After the games, heralded by a noisy outburst of 
toy drums and shouting the Lord of Misrule and his 



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Mummers come rollicking in with the great Yule log 
drawn by ribbons or garlands, the latter reinforced 
with wire. The mummers sing as they come the 
familiar but ever fascinating carol beginning: 

'^O come with a noise my merry, merry boys, 
Bring the Christmas log to the firing." 

In the train of the Lord of Misrule as suggested 
above, come many popular personifications of Queen 
Bess's time. For instance there is Father Christmas 
hung about with various kinds of good things which 
are distributed to the guests. There are also imper- 
sonations of Mynce Pye and Plum Puddyng, and other 
dainties specially appertaining to the Yuletide feast. 

When the log has been duly fired the feast itself is 
in order. This is served at long tables without cloth 
or cover. The centerpiece is a punch bowl, preferably 
of the antique hand-painted type, decorated with 
holiday greenery and filled with "lamb's wool" in 
which float quantities of little roasted apples. Or a 
temperance punch can be substituted. 

From the bowl the green garlands trail out over the 
festive board which is illuminated by many unshaded 
candles in quaint candlesticks of iron, brass or wood. 
Wooden platters are now easily obtained among the 
summer picnic supplies in the shops and constitute 
the most appropriate service plates. Mounds of 
fruit, antique compotiers heaped with "comfits" or 



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their modern equivalents in the form of glaced nuts 
and fruits and various candies — would fit cleverly into 
the decorative scheme. At either end of the groaning 
boards have huge meat pasties (preferably of chicken). 

Ye Boar's Head which is carried in as a special 
course on a platter decorated with bay and rosemary 
and having ^^a golden orange in its mouth" — follow- 
ing the description of an early chronicler — may be 
that of a domestic piggy nicely prepared and boarishly 
browned. 

Or a boar's head fashioned from bread dough can 
be prepared without any special talent for sculpture. 
When nicely baked and browned it is hollowed out 
from beneath and is then used as a cover for a dish of 
oysters in some form, croquettes or other modern 
dainty which it very cleverly conceals. 

Each guest should also receive a Yule Dough or 
Yule Baby — that is a quaint attempt at the human 
figure made of bread dough or paste. 

While the guests are at supper it would be most 
attractive to have a group of boys costumed as 
waits enter the dining hall there to entertain the com- 
pany with "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" and 
other Christmas carols. 

While this feature may be a trifle too ambitious for 
a private celebration in Elizabethan style, it could 
easily be arranged for a semi-public event of the same 
kind. For the Elizabethan plan is new and is specially 



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fitted to a Christinas celebration given by a woman's 
club, a school or any entertainment committee in 
need of funds. 

Thus, by having a clever amateur actor and elocu- 
tionist impersonate the Bard of Avon, ^^our pleasant 
Will" can be called before the Queen's dais, there to 
recite a scene or dialogue from ^^his new playhouse 
piece"— say ''Romeo and Juliet, "or ''Twelfth Night." 
Or Will Shakspere can be a man with a capital voice 
who will render the deathless Shaksperean songs, 
Bacon may deliver some of his best aphorisms, 
Spenser recite some exquisite extracts from "The 
Shepherd's Calendar, or Daphnaida," while Ben 
Jonson may entertain the assemblage with "Drink 
To Me Only With Thine Eyes." 

A masque adapted from Jonson's works and per- 
formed by Jonson, Shakspere, and a group of young 
people called The Strolling Players would make a 
new and delightful form of Christmas theatricals. 
Some of the plays and masques of this other great 
Elizabethan dramatist have been recently staged by 
college societies and other amateur dramatic troupes 
with great success. Another appropriate choice 
would be the morality play of Everyman rendered 
before Queen Bess and her court. No form of Merrie 
English dramatics requires much stage setting. 

In arranging a similar revel for the later — ^but now 
so popular date for holiday entertainments — "Twelfth 



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Night," the character of EUzabeth could be omitted 
to give place to another royal lady — she of the Bean 
Cake, who in company with the Bean Cake King, 
conducts the merrymakings and leads the cotillion, if 
there be one. 

Pantaloon, Father Christmas, or other appropriate 
Yuletide character might lead off the frolic by a reci- 
tation from Herrick's ''Twelfth Night" or ''King 
and Queene," which jovially begins: 

Now, now the mirth conies, 

With the cake full of plums, 

Where beane's the king of the sport here, 

Besides, we must know 

The pea also, 

Must revell as queene in the court here. 

Begin then to chuse, 

(This night as ye use) 

Who shall for the present delight here 

Be a king be the lot, 

And who shall not 

Be a Twelfe Day Queene for the night here? 

For the supper, served as described for the Christ- 
mas revel, on bare boards, the classic Twelfth Night 
dishes, including mynce pyes, marchpanes, fowls, 
confections, comfits and tarts should appear in holiday 
abundance. When the great cake with its emblem 
of bean and pea has been cut and enjoyed and their 



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Majesties duly proclaimed by jesters with herald's 
trumpets, enters the Lamb's Wool or Wassail in which 
the royal healths are drunk. 

For the cotillion many inventions new and charming 
with an Elizabethan flavor are possible. For example, 
this pretty one to decide the question of partners. 

As soon as Their Majesties' healths have been drunk 
comes the Lord of Misrule and his train on hobby 
horses with clamor and caroHng bringing in the Yule 
Log. This very realistic looking feature which is 
drawn in by means of long evergreen garlands (to 
which all the motleys lend a hand), proves to be a 
clever container for favors compounded by special 
order by a favor shop. The favors, '^Baubles" they 
should be termed, for the occasion must have ribbons 
or wrappers in different color to distinguish between 
those intended for opposite sexes. By matching these 
up (as for instance, an artificial holly leaf or spray with 
an exaggerated holly berry), the couples are formed. 

Or smaller favors can be baked in a pair of Twelfth 
Cakes and those who find matching ones dance to- 
gether. 

Contra-dances are novel and appropriate for a 
revel of this kind, harking back as they do to England's 
historic past. 



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A REINDEER FROLIC WILL DRAW THE CHIL- 
DREN 

As this unusual and popular little social costs noth- 
ing outside of the refreshments, tickets for it might 
well be issued at five cents each, an additional intake 
coming at refreshment time. 

Guests are invited to meet ^^ Dasher, Dancer, 
Prancer, and Vixen; Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blit- 
zen," the immortal reindeer of ''The Night before 
Christmas," and a very jolly evening is the result. 

The parlor is decorated to represent the north- 
polaric scene of Santa's home. At one end of the room 
where all entering can see it at once, is hung a large 
reindeer head made of hairy, brown cotton goods 
(unless some worn-out brown fur is available) and hav- 
ing large buttons for eyes, the nose and mouth being 
indicated with paint. The important feature of the 
beast is, of course, his branching horns, and where a 
set of antlers can be obtained these are highly effec- 
tive. However, a rough imitation shaped from thin 
board and stained to a dark color will be sufficiently 
realistic, and will serve every purpose of the game. 
Surround the deer with a bower of Christmas greens, 
from which he appears to be issuing. 

To begin the fun, the hostess produces half a dozen 
little hoop-shapes (embroidery-hoops are just the 
thing) covered with raw cotton set off with silver tin- 



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sel. These circlets are given to each player in turn, 
the player endeavoring with them to "ring" the horns 
as often as possible. All those who place three out of 
the six are conducted to a table on which is arranged a 
heap of white cotton snowballs containing gifts, and 
are invited to take one. 

In another game icicles figure prominently. These 
icicles are represented by the spiral-shaped barley- 
sugar candies which are sold everywhere in bottles. 
Attach the sticks in rows to a silver cord or ribbon 
which is stretched across the room at the far end. 
The object is for each player, blindfolded, to reach it 
and clip an icicle for himself. 

Another idea is to have attached to each icicle a 
tiny circle of cardboard with a number on it, the num- 
bers to correspond with those on Christmas packages 
to be brought upon the scene in a picturesque manner 
about this time. A Httle sled, decorated with Christ- 
mas greenery and piled high with packages, is drawn 
into the room by two small boys costumed as deer. 
They wear one-piece costumes of brown hairy goods, 
which terminate in masks resembling as closely as 
may be the heads of reindeer, with branching card- 
board horns. Although the deer do not go on all 
fours, their forefeet terminate in cardboard hoofs, 
and the little fellows can be relied upon to prance and 
paw in bringing the little sled to the parlor. Should 
this arrangement be impractical, Santa Claus himself 



66 Money-making Entertainments 

may bring in the sled, bewailing the fact that his rein- 
deer have run away. As each bundle is removed 
from the sled, the number on it is called by the host- 
ess, and is then claimed by the person whose icicle 
bears a figure to correspond. 

Any candy-store in Christmas season can supply a 
deer-head for twenty-five or thirty cents. This 
should be used, in connection with cotton-batting 
snow and holly and mistletoe or evergreen, for the 
center of the dining-table. From the chandelier, 
across the table, swing silver-tinsel cord, and to this 
attach the glass icicles from the Christmas-tree box. 
Use old-fashioned candlesticks with shimmering glass 
pendants, or glass sticks with fringed silver paper 
shades. Chocolate ice-cream may be ordered molded 
to represent reindeer-heads. 



SOCIALS FOR ANY SEASON 

A SHIP SOCIAL 

An idea equally good indoors or out is one where 

the scene humorously suggests the deck of an ocean 

steamer. Tickets written, printed, or typewritten on 

slips of pink or green cardboard are worded ^^thusly ": 

"Good for one continuous passage across the ocean and back 
on the afternoon of September 20. Vessel sails from Pier Num- 



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ber 7 (Morningside St.) at 3 p. m., or as soon afterward as the 
tide permits." 

The tickets sell for a nickel and as many as possible 
are disposed of in advance, more being retailed at the 
door. Those who receive should wear nautical caps 
made of cardboard and blue crepe paper with nautical 
insignia cut out of gilt paper and pasted on as decora- 
tion. Similar caps should be on sale aboard the vessel 
at the rate of five cents each. Have steamer chairs 
for hire at five cents a half hour and camp stools at a 
cent each a half hour. Spy glasses might be let out 
at a cent a ^^look." For souvenirs have little folders 
of paper marked Rules For Passengers. These book- 
lets contain many comic regulations which will stir a 
laugh. The following will illustrate: 

1. Avoid looking at the water, as it may cause an attack of 
seasickness. 

2. Lady passengers will kindly refrain from flirting with the 
captain and officers. 

3. Please do not ask the captain how many times he has 
crossed. 

4. Use the long-distance glass to look for whales. 

A dozen or more ^^regulations" might be included 
in the booklets, and these could be presented as sou- 
venirs unless the committee decides that the passen- 
gers might be charged a penny or two for these also. 

For the amusements have deck billiards or shuflfle- 



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board, quoit throwing, and working out puzzles. Or 
let some one read aloud a thrilling chapter from some 
romance of the sea, or deliver an original paper on the 
denizens of the deep. 

Finally have a chorus in which all join with piano 
accompaniment singing, "We Sail The Ocean Blue" 
from "Pinafore" or other ditty with oceanic flavor. 

For refreshments have ice-cream and hardtack, 
followed by salt-water taffy, for which charge ten 
cents a head. 

Decorate the rdom or porch with nautical pennants 
from crepe paper (the "Unabridged" will furnish the 
designs). Have these strung on cords "at the mast 
head." Raise a laugh with a hoarse-throated horn 
tooting at intervals which is announced as "the fog 
horn." 

HOW SHALL THE NEEDLEWORK CLUB REAL- 
IZE ON ITS PRETTY THINGS? 

When the needlework or embroidery club has com- 
pleted a session and a quantity of work has accumu- 
lated, the question arises as to what is the best method 
of selling it. 

It is a good thing to remember that the needlework 
need not be the only means of reaping a little financial 
reward unless it is desired to have it so, for it may be 
combined with a social event and money raised in 
several ways. 



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The needlecraft proper can be sold at auction, or 
blind auction or it may be exhibited, each piece care- 
fully labeled with the name of the worker and the 
price. A room is frequently given up to the exhibition 
aside from the apartment where the social end of the 
gathering goes on. 

Issue the invitations in this form: 

" The Priscilla Club of Morestown cordially invites you to 
attend an Exhibition and Sale of its handicraft on June 3 at 3 
p. M. The Sale will be followed by a Supper and Progressive 
Needle Party in the evening. Charge for supper will be twenty- 
five cents a head." 

For the supper it might be better to get away en- 
tirely from the conventional ice-cream and cake, 
which make social events monotonous to many, and 
to arrange something different. Here are two sug- 
gestions: 

Fish salad, ten cents a portion. 

Rye bread and butter sandwiches, three cents each. 

Radishes, pickles, olives, salted nuts, three cents a portion. 

Raspberry shortcake, ten cents a portion. 

Coffee or tea (hot or iced), five cents a glass or cup. 

Or you could ofifer them: 

Spiced beef, ten cents a portion. 
Bread and butter folds, three cents. 
Celery, radishes, pickles, three cents. 
Frozen custard, ten cents. 
Macaroons, five cents a portion. 



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Arrange the progressive needle fun in this way. 

Give each player a needle threaded with cotton or 
silk in a certain color. Have four needles threaded 
with blue, four with pink, four with yellow and so on. 
The color of the thread in the needles matches that of 
the decorations of the respective tables and indicates 
at which table the person holding any color will play. 

Have the tables made to seat four as in any pro- 
gressive games and have the tallies take the form of 
little home-made needle-books in which special needles 
inserted by the counter represent points won. Have 
each needle-book suspended by a loop of ribbon with a 
safety pin, so that it can be attached to the costume 
like a little chatelaine. 

At the first table have needles and thread and see 
who can thread most, progressing the two who (play- 
ing as partners) win the largest number of points. 
Each needle threaded counts one point. 

At the next table let one partner hold the thread, 
another the needle, and see which pair win out. 

At another have needle papers empty and a large dish 
of needles and let each try to fill as many papers, arrang- 
ing the needles neatly therein, as the time will allow. 

At a fourth give each player six tape needles and 
six pieces of tape of a width fitting the needles. Hold- 
ing needles and tape behind her back she is required 
to thread them. The two persons first ^^ouf are 
progressed. 



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Guessing the number of needles in a dish containing 
only the little steel implements and the number of feet 
of cotton on a large bobbin of the thread could con- 
stitute the fun at another table. Do not reveal the 
correct answers till the end of the round or if you do, 
then change the bobbin and the quantity of needles 
a little in each round. 

Again, hang up a magnet and see which two can 
catch most of their needles upon it by throwing them 
on or near the magnet. Give each player ten needles. 

A pretty sewing bag would make an attractive prize, 
or a case of good scissors, unless you have the oldtime 
fancy about ^^ cutting friendship" by a sharp-edged 
gift. 

A PEANUT SOCIAL 

Announcements can be written on tissue paper and 
enclosed in peanut shells which are further hidden in 
jeweler's boxes for transmission through the mail. 
Write them in rhyme thus: 

Dear Miss Meggs: 

Accept a hearty 

Invite to our peanut party- 
Next Saturday at half -past eight. 

We trust you're free that day and date. 

'Twill be informal, like this rhyme, 

Just peanuts and a jolly time. 

Entrance is all perfectly free; 

Only "eats" need a moderate fee. 
St. Philemond's 
in the Pines. August 7. 



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Sell the peanuts in bags for the games. Sell also 
peanut sandwiches, peanut butter, and peanut brittle. 
Tea and lemonade are free to all who purchase the 
nuts. 

Have one game in which everybody tries to see how 
many nuts it is possible to take in the right hand at 
once. Prize for the biggest *^grab " and booby for the 
smallest. Or have a basket of peanuts and let each 
person guess how many it contains. 

Then try this: Each man or girl thrusts the right 
hand, palm down, into peanuts. The contestant must 
endeavor to keep all those scooped up on the back of 
his hand while running around the room. If any fall, 
a forfeit is imposed. Or you can count another way — 
by giving a point for each peanut carried around the 
room. 

Another Peanut Race 

Again, arrange two groups of peanuts on two chairs 
at opposite ends of the room. Two players race at 
once, the object being to see who can in the shortest 
time carry his nuts to two empty chairs at the other 
end of the room. Here, two victors match victors 
until but one person remains. 

It is fun also to provide needles and thread with 
which the men make peanut necklaces for the girls, 
the fair sex making watch fobs for the men. Award 
a prize to the person of each sex making the most 



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attractive jewelry. The necklaces and watch fobs 
are distributed after the awarding of the prize and are 
retained as souvenirs. 



AN EVENING WITH THE TURK 

For a Turkish Evening on which even a little trouble 
is expended a five or ten cent admission fee might be 
charged, and a larger amount could be taken in later 
by the sale of sweetmeats and refreshments of Eastern 
suggestion. 

Turkish effects in decoration are easily achieved 
with the aid of shawls, curtains and other household 
draperies. Any rugs of Eastern design which hap- 
pen to be available can be draped over settees or 
tacked up upon the walls. Excelsior can be covered 
with remnants of goods to furnish an abundance of 
cushions for the occasion. 

Of course, there will be a Turkish cosy corner, which, 
in addition to its heavy draperies and pillows, could 
have groups of any ornamental weapons which the 
hostess can command in any way for the occasion. 

Some of the many scenes of life in Turkey, which 
appear in periodicals, can be clipped out and mounted 
on cardboard to further decorate the room. 

Arriving guests are greeted with deep salaams, 
which must be returned under penality of forfeit, 
the idea being developed in other laughable ways. 



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The games must all have a flavor of the land of 
Mahomet without being abstruse or tiresome. Blind- 
fold contests are always enjoyed and for a Turkish 
evening the curtain or target should suggest a map 
of Turkey, the central point or bull's-eye represented 
by a circle being marked "Mecca." To this spot 
each player in turn, with eyes carefully bandaged, 
must endeavor to pin a little doll attired as a Turk. 
Perhaps some of the Mahometans will successfully 
complete their pilgrimage, but the greater part will 
go greatly astray. The one coming nearest to the 
famous city wins a prize. Or if several are about 
equally close to it, the gift may be drawn for. 

Turkish fig paste in a pretty basket or box would 
make a suitable prize in this round. 

Again, the company may be asked to gather around 
a table where tablets and pencils are in waiting, here 
to write short biographies of Mahomet. Five or ten 
minutes should be the time limit, and a biographical 
dictionary recognized as a standard should be on hand 
to settle questions of doubt. Or the hostess may have 
previously written out the salient points of the great 
man's history, the different papers being judged by 
this outline. 

A collar or handkerchief box in Oriental lacquer 
ware might reward the cleverest biographer, if it is 
desired to award a prize in each round. 

An attractive drawing contest could be arranged 



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to consist in drawing the star and crescent of the 
Turkish flag, free-hand, with a prize for the most per- 
fect shapes considered together. Or colored paper 
could be distributed with scissors and each competitor 
given a piece from which to cut out as perfect a star 
and crescent as he was capable of. A framed picture 
of the mosque of St. Sophia could reward the best 
drawing or cutting. 

It would be appropriate and delightful to have se- 
lected readings from the Arabian Nights as the latter 
half of the evening's program and where the entertain- 
ment is held in a school hall or in spacious rooms these 
could be followed with a series of tableaux represent- 
ing some of the principal scenes. 

Scheherazade, her sister, and the Sultan beginning 
the celebrated tales. 

Aladdin, the princess, and the dead magician. 

The fisherman and the genie. 

Ali Baba in the thieves' cavern. All are examples 
of old favorites which would picture well. 

A pleasant puzzle game could be founded on famous 
Arabic names, personalities and the like as well as 
terms from the map of Turkish dominions in all of 
which the letters are jumbled so as to make the ap- 
pearance puzzling. Twenty minutes should be al- 
lowed for working them out and a book on Turkey 
awarded for the list most nearly complete. Another 
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and last letter of the term, numbering each puzzle 
and requiring the players to fill in the missing letters. 
Instead of furnishing each player or each couple with 
a list, the entertainer can write the two first and final 
letters on the blackboard, taking up but one term at a 
time, and awarding a point to the player who first 
discovers and calls out the correct noun. 

Refreshments are served on trays, preferably lac- 
quer ware, and the waitresses are summoned by the 
hostess clapping her hands, an Eastern custom to call 
the attendants. But ere the edibles arrive carry out 
another Turkish custom — the ablution, by presenting 
each guest with a finger bowl in which a leaf of sweet 
geranium or a flower might float. 

For the refreshments there should be black coffee 
served in cups as small as are obtainable; tiny cres- 
cent- and star-shaped sandwiches with a nut-mayon- 
naise filling, Turkish fig paste, figs and dates stuffed 
with nuts and marshmallows and cigarettes of choco- 
late. 

A SHIRTWAIST SOCIAL 

Invitations usually take no more elaborate form than 
the visiting card of the hostess with the words "Shirt- 
waist Party'' in one corner and, of course, the day, 
date, and hour. 

Each guest brings her sewing outfit as for an ordi- 
nary thimble party, also a pattern and material for 



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the blouse she wishes to make. The patterns could 
be examined first of all and a prize awarded to the 
girl bringing the one that is considered prettiest. 

Each guest who wishes to use any pattern pays 
three cents for the privilege. The shirtwaists are 
also sold or not according to the needs of the moment, 
but refreshments are five cents a portion, and there 
should be a table of shirtwaist accessories in the forms 
of belts, stocks, collars, etc., to tempt the feminine 
gathering. 

The following puzzle game will be found an excellent 
one with which to round out the afternoon. 



A SHIRTWAIST TALE 

To play it, cards are passed around having written 
upon them the little story given below, blanks being 
left for the answers to all of which last are parts of a 
shirtwaist or in some way connected with it. The 
answers are given here inclosed in brackets for the 
convenience of the hostess who thinks of adopting the 
idea. 

^^Miss Blank was such a pretty, sensible girl that 
people said she would make a (pattern) wife. Young 
George Dash seemed to agree with them, for he had 
already induced her to say the consenting word and 
the date was appointed for assuming the matrimonial 
(yoke). But ere the happy day arrived there were 



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the usual lovers' differences. Her unemotional na- 
ture made him feel at times that she was almost 
indifferent to him.'' ^'Oh/' she replied when he 
finally spoke out his mind on this point, "I cannot 
always wear my heart upon my (sleeve)." 

This explanation ended the difficulty and as her 
fair head lay for a moment on his manly (bosom) he 
gave her as a peace offering a jeweled (belt) for her 
slender (waist). After such an episode it may (seem) 
rather strange that her lover himself should fall into 
the same fault, but so it happened; and having been 
recently initiated into the commanding charm of the 
game of golf, he was so constantly on the (links) that 
in her turn, the girl became worried. She feared that 
she would never be able to win him (back) to his 
former devotion. Sometimes, after seeing him so ra- 
diant when returning from the course she felt that she 
would almost like to (collar) him and (cuff) him. 
Controlling herself, however, she put on a bold (front) 
and told him that for some time she had been con- 
sidering breaking the (tie) that (bound) them to each 
other. The lover, feeling himself no doubt in the 
wrong, could at first do little but (hem) and haw. 
Finally, however, he made his peace and they went 
together to hear the brass (band). She felt now that 
she could (buttonhole) him forever, as they parted 
after the concert instead of the cold (shoulder) which 
she feared, his arm encircled her (neck) lovingly and 



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she found his promise to her still (binding), despite 
the red (tape), which had gone before. She could 
not but feel that both had been a little on the (wrong 
side), and so they were married and (bound) together 
for life, for lovers' quarrels are often less serious than 
they (seam). 

A FORCED SALE 

One suburban Sunday school recently made ten 
dollars by a very novel sociable, the idea of which was 
kept a secret until the young people were on the scene. 

The function was understood, however, to be one 
with money raising as its object. 

Each player coming in on the evening appointed 
was given a small caHco bag filled with beans. There 
were fifty beans in each bag and each bean repre- 
sented, it was explained, one cent. 

When all were on the scene a horn was heard to 
blow above stairs, and as everybody crowded into the 
hall to learn the meaning thereof, a quaint little couple, 
extremely countrified in appearance, came scurrying 
down the stairs. The little old man whose hair and 
goatee were iron gray and whose suit a rusty black, 
carried a huge basket, assisted therein by his wife, 
who was equally old and dilapidated. 

In faltering terms the old man explained that owing 
to failure of crops he, Hiram, and Mirandy, his wife, 
were obliged to sell their household effects at a forced 



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sale. He asked the ladies and gentlemen present this 
evening to assist by purchasing a package each. 

As the objects were very diverse and many of them 
worth twice what they would be sold for, he explained, 
the auction method seemed most satisfactory. 

Accordingly mounting on a table Hiram auctioned 
off each bundle, Mirandy assisting him by standing 
at his side and extolling the value of the goods. 

The object of the beans was in order that anyone 
who had come unprepared to buy at the time could 
secure his purchase with the beans and afterwards 
make good the amount in coins. 

Mirandy and Hiram were, of course, two members 
of the committee, costumed for their act, while all of 
the goods in the packages had been solicited for the 
occasion from persons interested in the Sunday school. 
By limiting the beans in number to fifty it became 
impossible for any player to bid higher than fifty 
cents, which it was felt was a sufficient contribution 
for the purpose, while guests, if so inclined, could bid 
half the amount or less. 

The goods disposed of by the country couple in- 
cluded such desirable articles as a nice pound box of 
candy, a bottle of nut meats, a clothes brush, a de- 
licious cake, a new book, etc. 



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A NOVELTY SOCIAL 

A good way to raise a five-dollar bill, which is 
adapted to Ladies' Aid and Helping Hand societies, 
is by a sale of novelties. While hardly practical in 
the country or smaller towns, it could be readily 
arranged in any large town or city. 

The hostess or committee should send out invita- 
tions worded in this way in order to explain the idea 
to all those likely to be interested: 

Dear Miss Green: 

I hope you and Miss Katherine can join us on next Thursday 
evening at St. James' Hall where we are going to have a novelty 
social. The price of admission is a novelty of some kind or any 
kind, costing from one cent to one dollar — anything new and 
amusing, in fact, which you know of and wish to contribute. 
All the novelties will be auctioned off later on for the benefit 
of the Guild. Looking forward to seeing you on that evening, 
I am, 

Sincerely yours, 

Emma Blenkinsopp. 

In the case of a company of twelve or more, dis- 
cussing the novelties will provide a very pleasant 
entertainment. The exhibit should comprise several 
little devices, useful or amusing. Or somebody may 
elect to bring the apparatus for a new game or puzzle 
which can be tried on the spot. A new pattern or a 
new kind of fancywork, too, should pass the bringer 
of it in. 
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The auction conducted by a lively man or girl who 
is a good improviser should prove very jolly in addi- 
tion to the little pile of dimes and nickels reaped from 
it. 

AN OLD-TIME FROLIC 

Hostesses like the quaint setting with background 
of ancestral mahogany and crazy quilts, and the 
youthful guests relish the opportunity to dress up in 
the picturesque garments of long ago. 

The old-fashioned spelling-bee is revived both for 
parlors and semi-public places, and the boys and 
girls in old-time dress spell each other down with as 
great enthusiasm as ever did young folk fifty years ago. 

One fair committee even made a public entertain- 
ment of such a bee with great success. It may con- 
tain the germ of an idea for some other band similarly 
placed, for the plan as carried out was certainly well 
worth while 

The ladies sent a challenge to a prominent man's 
club, of which most of the husbands and brothers 
were members, offering to spell them down on a cer- 
tain evening to be agreed upon among the men. 

The male contingent took mirthfully to the idea, 
and the challenge was accepted. On receipt of the 
date agreed upon, the committee arranged for the 
printing and distribution of circulars announcing the 
contest to be held, and offering reserved seats for sale. 



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The scene was a large hall, and, as the reception 
accorded the announcements encouraged them to be- 
lieve from the very outset, they had no difl&culty in 
filling it. Not only those acquainted with both sets 
of contestants were interested, but the general public 
of the neighborhood was tickled by the idea, and old 
folks wished to attend in memory of old times. 

The beauty of this entertainment was that it re- 
quired no costumes, no scenery, nothing, in fact, but 
a little advance brushing up in the orthographical 
art by both sides. A committee of three or four from 
each body of competitors was appointed, and these 
committees appointed captains, who choose their 
own teams, secured referees and appointed a person 
to give out the words. 

Prizes were offered for the six best efforts, the first 
being a money prize, which the winner turned over to 
the good work. 

The one who stood up longest won first prize; the 
second last to go down had second choice, and so the 
fun went on. 



A NUMBER EIGHT SOCIAL 

Arrange a Number Eight (or Octo) Social for the 
eighth day of any month at eight o'clock sharp and 
charge eight cents admission fee. 

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with a little border made by placing little figure eights 
close together. In the notes some appropriate little 
puns will usually be possible. While these depend 
upon circumstances, it is possible to give an illustra- 
tion as follows: 

My dear Miss K8: (Kate): 

On the 8th of this month we, the St. Charles Guild, will 
give a Number Eight Party in honor of the eighth year of our 
association. There will be four times eight guests of whom we 
hope you will be one, and eight cents admission will be charged. 
The hour is eight sharp. Please don't be L8 (late). 

Arrange such pastimes as a contest in which guests 
are called on to write down ''Eight things you ate 
in eight letters." Sardines, truffles, macaroni, and 
potatoes are examples of these words. Give a prize — 
a figure eight in chocolate — for the best attempt. 

Follow the game with a supper where there are 
eight things to eat at eight cents a portion, and let all 
make a choice. 



THE STORY-TELLING TEA 

A capital way to raise a sum of money when there 
is plenty of time is to plan a series of story-telling 
teas. There should be ten or twelve women pledged 
to the work, each of whom agrees to give a tea of a 
simple informal sort, one afternoon during a certain 
month and to be prepared with a good story to relate 



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or to read. The main feature of the afternoon is the 
story which the hostess will endeavor to have as 
unique as possible, drawing from any good author or 
other source. After the story, refreshments are served 
and music rounds out the program. Twenty-five 
cents admission is charged. 

A SAMANTHY ALLEN POVERTY PARTY 

A new kind of ^'poverty social/' which is very 
popular at present, is a Samanthy Allen party. The 
invitations which are issued in the name of the famous 
Samanthy Allen, can be written on butcher's paper, 
cut and folded to be sealed without an envelope. 
Have the little ^'invites" in the humorous phraseology 
and spelHng of the famous Samantha books, using a 
form somewhat like this: 

Samanthy Allen wants all the friends and neighbors to con- 
vene and join at her house (No. 839 Arlington St.) on next 
Thursday evening, May the — , for a real, old-fashioned good 
time. Ware your old close. Everybody is urged and rekwested 
to please bring ten cents in thare close, as we are going to try 
to raise ten dollars for the orphans. Yours truly, 

Samanthy Allen. 

Have a plate or a toy bank by the door into which 
all can slip their dimes as they come in. 

Arrange all kinds of good, lively contests. Have a 
stringing contest where the young folks are paired off. 



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and each couple receives a length of spool cotton with 
a needle at each end. When the signal is given all 
begin to string peanuts or beads or berries (as the 
entertainer has been able to provide), on their threads, 
each of the couple plying the needle. In melon season, 
use melon seeds, for being slippery, they are excellent 
for this contest. The game is won by the pair who 
are first to cover their cotton with the seeds. 

Give a jar of home-made cookies as a prize to each 
of the winning pairs. Someone interested in the 
good work, who is a capital cook, can be induced to 
provide the prizes, which always add to the zest of 
the game. 

Country dances and an old-fashioned supper round 
out the evening. For the supper, which should be 
served without any suggestion of courses, to carry out 
the old-fashioned motive of the evening, have cider 
and buttermilk, doughnuts, pie, baked apples, hot 
biscuit and sponge cake. 



A JUMBO SOCIAL 

Invitations were written on sheets of note paper, 
where in the upper left-hand corner the prospective 
hostess sketched the outlines of an elephant under 
which she wrote ^' Jumbo; we shall not look upon his 
like again." 

Incorporated in each note of invitation was a re- 



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quest asking each guest who planned to attend the 
party to look up, and forward, a Jumbo exhibit to be 
placed on show. This, the note went on to explain, 
was to be the largest of its kind in any field of search 
— fruit or flower, natural or manufactured article. 
There were no restrictions as to the class of things 
eligible. The biggest apple, the biggest button, the 
most unwieldy newspaper, were quoted as examples. 

The invitations were issued ten days in advance of 
the date set and as time advanced the amusing ex- 
hibits began to arrive thick and fast. As each ship- 
ment came a laughable placard was prepared to ac- 
company it when placed on show. 

The exhibits were highly diversified in character. 
One contributor sent a monster melon which after 
being exhibited was added to the list of refreshments. 

Several of the exhibits were beautiful in their de- 
velopment, the large roses, for instance, sent very 
shortly before the party and afterward at the re- 
quest of the guests distributed as souvenirs. One girl 
found a cluster of hot-house grapes mammoth both 
in the size of the bunch and of the fruit. This was 
contributed to "refreshments," also. 

Each placard bore the name of the person who had 
furnished the article it described. Being cleverly and 
humorously composed, these cards excited great mirth. 
When all had been thoroughly viewed a vote was 
taken up, each exhibitor balloting for any exhibit but 



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his own. The person winning the prize received a 
hatbox marked, ^^BEST FRENCH BONBONS, ONE 
TON." 

The two-pound box of chocolates which formed the 
actual prize was found at the heart of the jumbo re- 
ceptacle. 

Quite a little money might be taken in at a Jumbo 
Exhibit by auctioning off at the conclusion of the 
entertainment the various exhibits which are worth 
while. A jumbo pie would sell well, so would jumbo 
fruit or candies or flowers, and refreshments in por- 
tions described as perfect jumbos for the money might 
be retailed at ten cents each. 



A BAG SOCIAL 

A simple and enjoyable social is arranged for by 
sending out tiny bags with the request that each per- 
son who accepts bring the bag with two cents for each 
foot represented in his height enclosed in it. Those 
who wish to contribute three cents a foot are urged 
to do so. 

Pretty bags of all kinds for different purposes, such 
as laundry bags, work bags, broom bags, blouse bags, 
etc., are offered for sale and should be temptingly dis- 
played when the guests assemble. 

Refreshments could be put up in paper bags to be 
sold at five cents each. A paper bag may contain a 



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sandwich, a piece of cake and some kind of fruit, as 
a banana. 

Another idea would be to have a more expensive 
supper all cooked in paper bags as a novelty. 

In country places where it is imperative to secure 
a clever advertising or announcement line in order 
to draw people out, this affair could be heralded as a 
Trip to Bagdad and the room might be pseudo Turk- 
ish as to decorations, effects being worked out with 
shawls and other draperies, cushions, cosy corners, 
etc. 

A COUPON PARTY 

A clever coupon party was managed as follows : 
Invitations were little oblongs of green paper, cut 
out to suggest a coupon, and typewritten in the follow- 
ing form: 

Free Coupon 

Admit bearer at No. 17 Edgewater Street, Thursday, Decem- 
ber , at 2:30 p. M. (P. S. — Do not cut this out. Grand 

coupon exchange for those desiring the opportunity, and ex- 
hibit of coupon-bought treasures. Guests urged to bring ex- 
hibits.) 

The first part of the afternoon was devoted to a 
discussion of the respective merits of different free 
coupons, trading stamps, etc., and women having odd 
ones of different sorts were enabled to exchange them 
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Again, correctly interpreting the postscript in the 
invitations, each guest who could do so brought with 
her some gift obtained through the agency of free 
coupons or trading stamps. These gifts were ticketed 
and arranged on a table after the manner of an exhibit. 
Pencils and paper were distributed, and each guest 
was asked to vote for the coupon present which she 
regarded as most desirable. The exhibit receiving 
the most votes won a prize. 

Refreshments were passed on trays, and were con- 
ventional, save that the cups in which chocolate was 
served, with several dainty little plates and bonbon- 
dishes, had been obtained as coupon prizes by the hos- 
tess, who distributed them among her guests. 

To make money at a Coupon Party get each woman 
interested to offer a coupon prize. These are ex- 
hibited on a table. Each woman present then buys a 
ticket at ten cents or twenty-five cents according to 
previous agreement. Afterward numbers are drawn 
and she who draws number one chooses her prize first. 
No. 2 chooses second and so on. All money taken 
in goes to the good work. 



AT THIS ONE'S GUESTS ARE "ARRESTED" 

Another novel variation of the poverty social is a 
frolic for which cards written or printed in the follow- 
ing form are sent out: 



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"On Wednesday, May , the Church of St. Hilary will 

hold an Economy Social, to which you are cordially invited. 
The entertainment is for the purpose of raising money to buy 
our church coal while rates are low. All who attend are re- 
quested to wear their everyday clothes. This social will be 
under police surveillance and all evidences of undue luxury are 
forbidden. Those infringing upon this regulation will be 
arrested and fined.'' 

On arriving on the appointed evening, guests find 
the walls of the parlor or hall placarded with long lists 
of finable articles. For example : 

Feather in hat, i cent; two feathers, 2 cents. 

High hat, 5 cents. 

Silk dress, 5 cents. 

Kid gloves, 2 cents. 

Patent leathers, 2 cents. 

Watch chain, 2 cents. 

The ^^ police" who are in charge of the affair are 
pretty girls attired in adaptations of policemen's uni- 
forms (or they may simply wear policemen's hats 
made of crepe paper and carry papier-mache night 
sticks). These attractive ^^cops" patrol the floor 
and as soon as any guest is found who violates the 
rules by wearing any article of luxury, they arrest 
him and conduct the prisoner to the judge, who im- 
poses a fine. The judge, another young woman, might 
confront the delinquents at a desk representing the 
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The idea of the "arrests" comes as a complete 
novelty to the average guest of the social, who cheer- 
fully pays fines amounting to twenty-five or even fifty 
cents, for the fun involved. 



RUBBER SOCIAL 

Socials where each guest pays an admission fee, not 
in coin but in merchandise of some kind, are good 
money raisers. A Rubber Rummage, being a merry- 
making with a business end, on the order named, can 
be made a real success of. Invitations are issued in 
the following form and are folded and held in place 
with rubber bands: 

You are cordially invited to attend a Rubber Social to be 
given Thursday evening, May 23, for the benefit of St. James 

Mission at the Mission House, St. The price of admission 

is some old rubber to be sold for the benefit of the work. 
Sincerely yours, 

The Mission Band. 

As each person arrives bringing his contribution in 
the form of a worn-out garden hose, a mackintosh 
which has passed the days of its usefulness, rubber 
gloves, rubber overshoes or the like, these articles are 
thrown in a heap on the floor. They are afterwards 
disposed of by the committee to a dealer in second- 
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Various rubbering games such as the ever good one 
known as Observation, or the contest where feet and 
hands are displayed from behind a screen or curtain 
to be guessed would make up a merry evening for the 
young folks. 

A supper served at fifteen cents will often prove 
popular where one at fifty cents would fail, and a cold 
refreshment of this kind might be tried in connection 
with the Rubbering Party. 

Have small pasteboard boxes or baskets and in 
each pack away, daintily wrapped in paraffine paper, 
a sandwich, a wedge of pie, a banana or an apple. 
Pass coffee or lemonade without extra charge to 
those who purchase the lunches. 

Instead of the invitation suggested at the beginning 
of this article some merrymakers will prefer one in 
rhyme, perhaps, explaining that 

The price of admission is an old rubber shoe, 
(In fact any piece of old rubber will do). 
One lets you in, but we're grateful for two. 



A BAG SOCIAL 

Each woman interested pledges herself to contribute 
one or more bags of some kind. Laundry bags, sew- 
ing bags, knitting bags, spool bags, pudding bags are 
all appropriate. The invitations are sent out written 
on tiny paper bags enclosed in envelopes. Arriving 



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guests find all the bags contributed prettily displayed 
with the prices attached. 

When the bags have been sold a series of simple 
contests played with bags could be inaugurated. 
For instance a puzzle game on the following order: 

A Bag of Bags 

What bag is found in Asiatic Turkey? Bagdad. 

What bag is heaviest? Baggage. 

What bag is lightest? Bagatelle. 

What bag is loosest? Baggy. 

What bag makes most noise? Bagpipe. 

What bag is a major in Dickens? Bagstock. 

Two ideas for the supper are available. The choice 
might depend upon the price which it is desired to 
charge. Thus, a twenty-five cent refreshment might 
be sold packed in big paper bags or a fifty cent supper 
might be served at table, all the viands served having 
been cooked in paper bags. 

A TRIP TO MEXICO 

The parlor was decorated for the occasion to sug- 
gest a patio or inside court open to the air, which with 
its flowers and pleasant breezes is a feature of Spanish- 
American dwellings. 

The floor of the room was covered with linoleum in 
a pattern which suggested the marble flagging. In 
the center of this, through the ingenuity of the house- 



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hold handy-man, splashed a little fountain. Tropical 
plants, such as ferns and palms, were of course used 
in abundance, fans and interesting views of Mexico 
were scattered about on mission benches. 

On the walls above the greenery were Mexican 
flags and bunting in the Mexican colors of yellow, 
red and blue, surmounted by the Stars and Stripes. 
Host and hostess appeared in an adaptation of the 
national costume of Mexico. All the amusements, too, 
bore in some way on things Mexican. 

The Contests 

For instance, in the first contest each ^^seiior" 
chose a "senora" or a ^^senorlta" as his partner, and 
to each couple was given a blank book with pencil, 
the former covered and decorated in Mexican colors. 
On the first page of this book was discovered the di- 
rection for the first game, which read as follows: 

^^Here please draw a map of Mexico on which lo- 
cate the following cities: Chihuahua, Monterey, 
Victoria, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Durango, CoKma, 
Orizaba, San Luis Potosi, Saltillo, Tehuantepec, 
Pueblo, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Acapulco." 

Blank pages were left opposite for the maps, and 
having performed this task assigned to them, players 
proceeded to another page, where it was found they 
were required to: 

^^ Define the following words, all of which appear 



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more or less frequently in American magazines and 
papers: 

"Patio, burro, sombrero, peon, donas, mantilla, 
yuccas, tortillas, tamales, hacienda, pulque." 

Biographical Game 

A biographical contest continued the program and 
this, outlined on another page, required that players 
"give a brief account of the following personages, etc., 
all of whom were in some way connected with the 
history of Mexico: Cortez, Montezuma, Aztecs, 
Santa Anna, Alvarado, Maximilian of Austria, Cor- 
dova, Zachary Taylor." 

Filling in the interesting little books occupied more 
than an hour, at the end of which time every one hav- 
ing finished, the ^^examinations" were collected and 
revised in accordance with a list already prepared. 

Four or five prizes were awarded for the "highest 
average" obtained among the players. These took 
the shape of Mexican Indian baskets for the men, 
handkerchiefs decorated with Mexican drawnwork 
for the ladies, with views of Mexico, and Spanish 
phrase books, pocket size, as second awards. 

After these had been distributed with appropriate 
speeches guests were conducted into another room, 
where with the aid of a magic lantern an illustrated 
talk on Mexico, its people and customs was given, 
and being extremely topical was very enjoyable. 



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After the talk the company proceeded to the dining 
room where a Mexican supper was served. 

Table decorations were in red, yellow, and blue, 
these colors in crepe paper being used to cover the 
pots of small tropical palms and ferns used upon the 
board. Place cards were tiny doll's sombreros with 
names of the guests tagged to them. 

The menu was as follows : 

Mexican Supper 

Bisque of Chili, — To make this soup eight large 
chili peppers are required. Remove the seeds and 
veins as usual and boil. When soft press the pulp 
through a sieve. Add to it a cup of boiled rice, also 
pressed through sieve. Season with salt and tobasco. 
To one beaten egg add a cupful of cream, beat to- 
gether, then add a quart of hot milk. 

Put the chili mixture in this, let it boil up once, 
pour over squares of toast and serve at once. 

Chilis Relleno, — For this entree take as many green 
chili peppers as there will be guests, and lay them on 
the stove until roasted on each side, but slightly. 
Now roll them in a cloth for just a few minutes after 
which treatment the rind is easily removed. Cut 
off tops and remove very carefully all veins and seeds. 
Then stuff with the following mixture, which is for a 
dozen peppers. A pound of well cooked veal, ground 
fine, a pork sausage and half a cup each of seedless 
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raisins and blanched almonds. Moisten this a little 
with veal stock, season with pepper and salt. After 
the peppers are stuffed put the ^^lids" on, dip in a 
thin batter of egg and flour. Fry in olive oil very hot 
and serve with tomato sauce. 

Polluelo Quisado. — Two tender young chickens are 
required, which are steamed for twenty minutes, 
then cut in pieces as for a fricassee. Strain a can of 
tomatoes and mix with same quantity of corn. Add 
a green pepper minced, and a little minced parsley. 
Season with paprika and pepper. Into this put the 
mixed steamed chicken, thickening the liquid with 
bread crumbs. Turn into earthenware dish, top with 
large bits of butter and bake thirty minutes. 

Cidracayote. — Wash and cut away stem and flower 
end of nice summer squash, cut it into little squares. 
Into the pan put one ounce of pure lard, and when 
this is hot add a teaspoonful of onions, chopped fine. 
When onions begin to brown put in squash, seasoning 
with pepper and salt. Fry for ten minutes, stirring 
frequently. Now add some tender corn, fresh cut 
from the cob, using it in the proportions of half a cup 
of corn to a pint of the squash. Cook the mixture 
until sufficiently soft to mash. 

The salad also can be out of the ordinary. 

Tomato Con Queso. — Peel and halve some nice ripe 
tomatoes and put them on a bed of crisp white lettuce 
leaves. Roll cream cheese into small balls. Cover 



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the tomatoes with mayonnaise, decorate with the 
cheese balls and sprinkle paprika over the whole. 

The sweet course which rounded out the supper 
consisted of ice-cream, in Mexican colors, served with 
Mexican kisses, the recipe for which is familiar to 
Northern housewives who are cake bakers. 



A CHILDREN'S MATINEE 

At a story-teUing matinee for children the fifty 
cents admission fee covered all the enjoyments. A 
lady who made a specialty of story telling to children 
was present and spun many yarns. Hansel and 
Gretel was one of these, and last of all came the 
story of The Gingerbread Man with ^'cloves for his 
eyes and spice for his tie." When this story was 
complete five hundred little gingerbread men were 
distributed as souvenirs to the five hundred children 
present. 

"A PERFECTLY FINE TIME" AND HOW TO 
MAKE TEN DOLLARS BY IT 

It was when local imagination had been stretched 
to what seemed the breaking point in the interest of a 
small local church heavily burdened with a building 
debt that some one hit upon the plan of having a 
"perfectly fine time." 

Invitations were written in this form: 



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You are cordially invited to attend a social meeting of the 
young people of St. Bartholomew's Church on the evening of 
October 6, 19 13. A Perfectly Fine Time is absolutely guaran- 
teed by the committee of arrangements. Please bring a lot of 
copper cents. Everything will be fine and everybody will be 
fined. 

All saved up their pennies for a week or more in ad- 
vance for the event and the first means of disposing 
of some of these was found in a weighing machine 
stationed at the door of the hall where the frolic was 
held. Each person paid one cent for his correct 
weight, but great was the fun when it was discovered 
that everybody weighed either over or under the cor- 
rect weight for his respective sex, the correct weight 
never being given by the way, so that each had to pay 
an additional cent for each ten pounds of avoirdupois 
demanded by the person in charge. 

Then all were measured as they penetrated further 
into the room, and each was found to be a little under 
or over correct height and one or two more pennies 
apiece were demanded. 

By this time the idea of '^fine time" began to be 
clear to the visitors, though at no time during the 
evening was it possible to discover any appreciable 
system in the penalties imposed. 

There were certain chairs in which, if one sat, one 
paid a cent, but which these were it was impossible to 
find out until one was seated in them, and they seemed 



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to change from minute to minute according to 
whether the seated person had before been fined or 
according to his pocketbook. 

Certain words and expressions cost the speaker of 
them one cent each, but according to the committee 
the only way to find out whether they were dangerous 
or not was to say them. 

When it came to the supper, little menus with the 
names of good things and their prices written upon 
them were passed, but behold! those ordering some 
of the very cheapest and some of the most delicious 
dishes were informed when settling their bills that 
each of these viands, being specially good or specially 
cheap, subjected the purchaser to a fine of a penny a 
portion. 

Other ridiculous fines were a tax of a penny upon 
light hair and the same on dark; a tax upon eyes blue 
or gray and equally upon black or brown. A tax for 
having too many letters in one's name and too few. 

All the fines came as surprises, causing the welkin 
to ring, and nobody seemed to mind a '^hold up^' 
which entailed so small an amount and which came so 
mirthfully. 

AN EVENING WITH JULES VERNE 

An amusing social was recently given which any 
church or Sunday school in search of a means of rais- 
ing money should "make a note of. 



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It was called ^'An Evening With Jules Verne," 
and consisted of a highly diverting "Tour of the 
World in Eighty Minutes." 

The house in which the affair was given was one of 
the roomy old-fashioned type affording two parlors, 
a wide hall, etc., which could be thrown open to the 
guests. In fact, the pleasant sitting room and other 
nooks on the second floor were also available owing 
to their situation in the architectural plan, so that the 
tour arranged was a laughably extensive one. 

A short time in advance of the date set some amus- 
ing directions for tourists, all the purest nonsense, had 
been turned over to a neighborhood youth with a 
hand printing-press. They were printed in such a 
way that they could be folded into wee booklets and 
covered with cardboard and turkey red cotton to 
look like Baedekers. 

When the company arrived they found a portion 
of the front hall converted into the ticket office of a 
steamship company. Here the son of the house, 
attired in uniform, dispensed ludicrous information 
with regard to routes. His readiness in jokes and 
repartee with "the patrons of the line" promised to 
make the frolic a hit from the start. 

At one side of the hall was a pile of trunks, suit 
cases, satchels, steamer rugs and other "baggage" 
with labels, which made the prospective passengers 
laugh anew. Of course, there was a news-stand, 



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with periodicals and papers and with packages of pea- 
nuts, milk chocolate, cough drops and other dainties 
to be had for the asking until the supply was exhausted. 

One of the doors leading from the hall into the front 
parlor had been covered with white cambric, on which 
the words ^^The Gangway" appeared in black letters. 

A voice from within cried out ^^AU aboard" from 
time to time, so that those who had exhausted the 
amusements of the ticket office might feel privileged 
to go aboard ''The Ship." 

The front parlor was indeed exceedingly shiplike. 
The window seats had been labeled staterooms, in- 
cluding deck suite, etc., while three tables arranged 
together down the center of the room suggested the 
long saloon table to those familiar with the appoint- 
ments of a steamer. 

When all were "on board" and the "deck steward," 
impersonated by the former ticket agent, was setting 
forth the games of ring toss and deck shuflfleboard, 
both of which were appropriate for a sea trip, a com- 
motion was heard outside. All turned, uncertain 
as to whether this was some actual contretemps or a 
part of the evening's program. The door marked 
gangway was just then thrown noisily open and in 
tumbled a pair of weirdly made-up emigrants such as 
one sees on the vaudeville stage. The deck steward 
attempted to force them to retire to the steerage, but 
they requested time to amuse the first cabin passengers 



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before doing so, and this request, although with ap- 
parent reluctance, was finally granted. 

Throwing down their bundles, the emigrants (in 
reality two talented young comedians of the locality) 
executed a dance and several songs in broken English, 
which called forth enthusiastic encore. 

This over and the two intruders banished from the 
scene with directions to betake themselves to the 
steerage, the travelers played the two games arranged 
for them until a cry from the lookout of ^Xand in 
sight" concluded these pastimes. Wee suit cases of 
papier-mache, filled with ^^salt water taffy," rewarded 
the two persons making the best score in the deck 
sports. 

In the second parlor the guests visited England. 
Not much in the way of scenery was discovered, but 
what there was, was funny. A big closet was marked 
^^Hide Park," and umbrellas suspended from the ceil- 
ing bespoke of rainy climate. A table heaped with 
diverse articles jumbled together was labeled ^^Pell 
Mell," and this the players ^'observed" in the usual 
way for two minutes. The prizes in the observation 
game were Kttle volumes of Shakspere, Charles 
Dickens, and other celebrities. 

In Germany the travelers were treated to music 
both instrumental and vocal. The contest consisted 
in locating, without the aid of a map, a list of German 
cities proposed by the entertainer. Sheet music 



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was the prize, and lemonade was served in little blue 
steins, which were retained by all as souvenirs of the 
Fatherland. 

Further travels conducted the tourists to Holland, 
where paper windmills. Delft porcelains and other 
characteristic decorations, including a dainty crepe 
paper representing Dutch scenes, were used. Here 
some one in Dutch costume read aloud an entertain- 
ing paper on Holland, after which a refreshment con- 
sisting of herring salad, bread sticks and coffee was 
served. 

In Italy there were laundry tubs filled with water 
on which floated gondolas cut from sheet celluloid. 
These were marked ^^The Adriatic," ^Xake Como," 
and so on. Vesuvius in a peaceable state was drawn 
on a curtain, and the travelers blindfolded attempted 
to pin a little tourist cut from paper nearest to the 
crater thereof. Pretty paper weights said to be of 
pure Parian marble were presented as prizes, their 
subjects being chosen among famous statues of Italy. 

Of course, the party visited Egypt, where the floor, 
from which the rugs had been removed, was strewn 
with sand. On this were erected pyramids consisting 
of clothes-trees covered with wrapping paper. On 
the paper some very diverting hieroglyphics had been 
drawn with charcoal. Here in Egypt the game con- 
sisted in working out some clever rebuses, worked out 
in pictures and called for the occasion Hieroglyphics. 



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Refreshments were sandwiches "made of the sand of 
the desert.'' 

In India the travelers found an amazing amount of 
India rubber, beginning with a clump of India-rubber 
plants labeled The Jungle, and attached to the plants 
some India-rubber toys and overshoes. Here a pic- 
ture of a monkey was shown and the tourists were 
asked to draw an efifective tail for it on paper pro- 
vided for the purpose. Those who succeeded best 
received views of Delhi, and those who won boobies 
were presented with toy monkeys on strings. 

How TO Use the Idea 

In addition to being a splendid idea for a house 
party where the house is one of old-fashioned spacious- 
ness, this plan is excellent for Sunday Schools, Y. W. 
C. A. meetings, and similar gatherings where a 
farcical plan is wanted to be used either with or with- 
out an entrance fee. 

"Tourist tickets" can here be sold at ten cents 
each, and refreshments and souvenirs of each different 
country retailed at five cents each. Foreign views, 
when contributed, can be retailed and a contribution 
might be taken up by the pseudo-emigrants or stow- 
aways. 



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A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE BOYS' MISSION 

BAND 

The boys' mission band can raise money without 
too great an effort by arranging a "Square Deal" for 
other lads of their age. Sell tickets square in shape 
at the square price of ten cents. Hold the frolic in a 
room shaped as nearly square as possible. Have all 
kinds of feats performed squarely. For instance, each 
boy can be asked to draw a square on a blackboard 
(or on paper provided for the purpose) free hand. 

Have as many squares of pasteboard cut into small 
pieces as there will be players. Put the pieces which 
go to make up each square in an envelope and hand 
each boy one envelope. When the bell rings all begin 
to put together the pieces and the player who first 
makes a perfect square in this way wins the game. 

Now at opposite ends of the room draw big squares 
on the boards with chalk. Erect a flag in each square. 
Some of the boys are detailed to try to capture the 
flag while two defend each square. If any of the 
attacking party can capture the flag without being 
tagged as they enter the square, the game is theirs, 
but any one tagged becomes a captive and must re- 
main in the square until rescued. To rescue him 
some other player must invade the square and tag 
him, escaping tagging himself. In such case the 
player who invades may not capture the flag. 



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Give a square of pink cardboard to each lad who 
wins a game of any kind and [let all those who get 
such squares draw for a general prize at the end of the 
series. Or if one player receives more squares than 
the others, this player wins the general prize. 

Over the refreshment hang a sign reading A Square 
Deal in Refreshments. A general charge of 
twenty-five cents might be made for these, or sand- 
wiches, etc., could be vended at five cents each, and 
so on. Have the sandwiches square and square cakes 
and crackers, caramels, or other square candies, etc. 



SUPPERS AND SPREADS THAT COMBINE 
PHILANTHROPY AND FUN 

One of the very best ways to combine fun and phil- 
anthropy is by means of a subscription supper or 
spread, where all those invited are known to each other 
and where the moderate price charged goes to swell 
the exchequer of some local good work in which all are 
interested. 

Modernity demands nowadays not only that the 
food at such spreads be good and well prepared, but 
that an original and catchy idea be developed in both 
table decorations and menu. 

It is not enough to be substantial and social : such a 



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repast must have its amusing elements and must give 
the guests something to talk about or to laugh over. 

One idea which fills all the requirements of such a 
feast as to originality and which is easy to get up into 
the bargain is a 



ROUND THE WORLD SUPPER 

For a successful entertainment under this name, 
given a short time ago, the table centerpiece was a 
little globe prepared over a wire frame by a local florist. 
The hemispheres and bodies of water were cleverly 
simulated with flowers and greenery. Kindergarten 
dissected maps in bright colors were arranged here 
and there over the white table-cloth to suggest the 
face of the globe, and favors were pasteboard globes 
filled with candy. For the place cards the committee 
of arrangements had a novel idea. They searched 
files of back numbers of magazines for figures in the 
costume of different nations. These figures were cut 
out, stiffened with cardboard, colored with water 
colors, and the names of the guests written thereon. 
Each little figure was furnished with a cardboard sup- 
port by which it stood erect. The charming designs 
of crepe paper now furnish several attractive figures 
for such place cards, including Japanese, Dutch, etc., 
in appropriate coloring. 

The menu was as follows: 



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The International Dishes 

French Pot au Feu (Bouillon). Vienna Bread 

Chinese Chop Suey. Maryland Biscuit. Butter. Canada 

Celery. 
English Roast Beef. Yorkshire Pudding. Irish Potatoes. 

Italian Spaghetti. 
West Indian Avocado Pear Salad. French Dressing. Dutch 

Bread. Butter. 
Roman Sherbet. New England Pie. 

Turkish Delight (Fig Candy). Stuffed Egyptian Dates. 

Java and Mocha Coffee. 



A PICKUP SUPPER 

The Committee who base their hopes upon a Pickup 
Supper are likely to have a generous response as to 
tickets, for ever since this clever little idea has been 
hit upon the result has been the same. The secret is — 
and usually this is not revealed until the affair comes 
off — that neither knife, fork, nor spoon is seen on 
the festive table, and every item on the menu is in- 
tended to be enjoyed in the manner of the primitive 
man or not at all. However, everything is selected 
and served with such extreme daintiness that an entire 
meal without knife, fork, or spoon is available for 
the most fastidious. Finger rolls and bread and 
butter sandwiches, the former already buttered, are 
in place when guests come to table. Side dishes also 
in place are filled with dainties commonly eaten or 
conveyed to the mouth without the silver implements 



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which civilization usually requires — for instance, 
olives, celery, salted nuts, radishes, bonbons, little 
crackers, and so on. 

How IT IS Handled 

The problem of spoonless soup is solved by serving 
the potage in tiny cups with handles. With it pass 
the crackers. 

Next have the tiniest of patty shells filled with 
minced or creamed chicken. Have two or more of 
these to each portion, according to size. Pass with 
these the olives, celery, and spKt, buttered bread 
sticks or tiny hot baking-powder biscuit already but- 
tered. For the main course a suggestion would be 
rib chops broiled and fitted out with tiny papers on 
the bones by means of which they can be eaten with- 
out soiling the fingers. Saratoga or French fried 
potatoes might accompany the chops, and asparagus 
to be enjoyed au naturel would round out this course 
without the introduction of any table silver. 

For the salad serve endive, but pass the French 
dressing with which it is to be eaten in Kttle butter 
plates, so that each leaf may be individually dipped. 
Coffee or cocoa and the bread and butter sandwiches 
and cheese might accompany the endive, and for the 
dessert nothing could be better than big wedges of pie 
made rather unwieldy to raise a laugh, or big eclairs 
or tarts. Sweetmeats come last of all. 



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A CHINESE LUNCHEON AT FIFTY CENTS A 

HEAD 

In localities where Chinese fare would be a novelty 
a sum of money can be raised at almost any time of 
year by a Chinese luncheon. 

For a Chinese luncheon table both effective and 
easy to arrange use, across the white cloth, two broad 
bands of yellow silk or satin, or the same of crepe 
paper, according to your purse. 

Have the bands form an X crossing in the center of 
the table and on them write marks in imitation of the 
Chinese characters in black, using a camel's-hair 
brush and India ink. 

For the centerpiece use chrysanthemums, real or 
artificial, especially the small garden variety, if these 
can be obtained. Or employ cherry blossoms, natura. 
or of paper, or Chinese lily bulbs in a flat blue and 
white dish with bits of rock and shells. 

Any screens, vases, or curiosities that one possesses 
that are characteristically Chinese should be arranged 
on the mantel or sideboard and a few Chinese lanterns 
dropped from the ceiling, not necessarily to be lighted 

Again, and it is very charming, a large paper um- 
brella may be suspended over the table and paper 
lanterns depended from all the ribs. 

If any Chinese prints can be found in back numbers 
of magazines or otherwise obtained without great ex- 



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pense, mount these on strips of tea-chest matting 
and festoon the walls with them. 

For favors get or make the funny little laundry lists 
that represent John Chinaman in pigtail and native 
costume and wearing his Heathen Chinee smile. 

The committee who desires to go into the idea more 
deeply can engage a cook from some Chinese restau- 
rant, who will bring the required materials for a meal 
in the Chinese style and will supply the requisite 
china and table implements. In such case have the 
menu which will be served written on long strips of 
red or yellow paper by the chef and lay one strip be- 
side each plate with translation opposite each dish. 

To have the little function merely amusingly imi- 
tative without being Mongolian in every detail, make 
some pretense at the native dishes which are unknown 
to our cuisine and for which the celestial can rarely 
be brought to give a recipe. Not a little fun can be 
had out of such an adaptation. 

For it, the first course should be delicious tea in 
wee cups of Chinese pattern, for instance, of blue and 
white in the dragon or the phoenix design. 

Secondly come Eastern sweetmeats, which can be 
obtained through an Oriental shop, and lichee nuts. 

Bor low guy, the celebrated bird's-nest soup, is out 
of the question without a Chinese cook. Some other 
good soup should be substituted and eaten from wee 
ladles of china instead of from spoons. 
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Next have a course of fried chicken (boneless), with 
fresh mushrooms chopped in the gravy. This will 
afford an occidental adaptation of chow guy pen. 

Roast a duck in Yankee fashion, but bring it to 
table in a bed of white chrysanthemum petals for the 
principal course. 

Chop suey has long since become naturalized to 
the American kitchen and may be introduced at this 
stage of the meal. 

Noodles fried with cold chopped meat, nicely 
seasoned and passed with well-boiled rice, makes an 
entree almost Mongolian. 

For dessert serve rice wafers, now obtainable in any 
grocery store, or cakes from an Oriental shop, and 
almonds browned in butter with more of the crys- 
tallized sweetmeats and further cups of tea. 

The hostess can increase the picturesqueness of the 
occasion by dressing in imitation of a Chinese lady's 
costume. 

Mux Kim Ghet 
(Golden Lime) 
In selecting favors, great care must be taken to 
avoid Japanese suggestions. The pagoda, junk boat, 
jinrikisha, and the little Chinese acrobatic figures 
are all in good repute as souvenirs, and place cards in 
Chinese designs may be ordered specially or copied 
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Attractive favors for the ladies are bunches of 
paper flowers attached to long skewers to be stuck in 
the hair as the Chinese dames wear them. 

The tea is served in cups without handles, but 
covered with the saucer to keep it hot. In drinking it, 
the saucer should be kept on the cup, but slipped to 
one side while the liquid is sipped through the aperture 
thus formed. 



MORE DETAILS FOR A CHINESE MENU 

For those who wish to give a Chinese luncheon or 
dinner unquestionably celestial the following details 
will be of interest and will help to arrange the scale 
of prices. The famous birds' nests are eight dollars 
a pound, and sharks' fins are five dollars a pound. 
Six persons can be served with a poimd of either. 

The following items are popular for MongoUan 
bills of fare: 

Yat Mo Min — Plain noodle soup. 

Wat Gui Min — Chicken in noodle soup. 

Mo Koo Qui Tong — Mushroom soup with chicken. 

Lat Chew Ngow Yok — Green pepper with beef. 

Bor Lor — Pineapple. 

Foo Yong Ear — ^Lobster omelet. 

To be correct in your table setting, have a round 
table with well-poKshed top, but dispense entirely 
with doylies or cloth. As the Chinese of high rank 



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often carries a paper napkin '^up his sleeve" literally, 
this innovation of paper napkins is allowable, but 
avoid those of flower patterns in Japanese style, for 
everything Japanese is strictly taboo, in fact, the 
white paper napkin is the safest. 

There are bowls with flaring sides, shallow, and 
about the diameter of an ordinary butter plate, which 
are to be used instead of plates. They are obtainable 
in Oriental stores or in any Chinese quarter. At each 
cover put one of these plates, a pair of chopsticks, and 
a spoon made of porcelain. A large dish containing 
all the food to be served in a single course is set in the 
center of the table. Each one takes his own share 
from the central dish in quite an informal manner, 
using his spoon. The attempts of the company, con- 
fronted for the first time with the use of chopsticks, 
will break the ice if nothing else will. 

Dotted all over the table are little dishes, cups with 
flaring rim, and so forth, containing such dainties as 
shelled nuts, candied fruits, ginger. The Mongolian 
household uses neither bread, butter, sugar, milk, nor 
desserts. The servant appears merely to place the 
courses and replenish the bowls, for the same pair of 
chopsticks and the one spoon must serve the diner 
throughout the meal. 

The following menu was suggested by an authority 
as a good one for committees who wish to have the 
meal Chinese throughout. 



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Yin Wah Yuy Gan 

(Chicken served chopped in bird's nest soup) 
Mo Kow Gai Shu Gai 

(Fried chicken with mushrooms) (Roast chicken) 

Chow Min 
(Fried noodle with mushrooms) 
Fong Yong Har Rice 

(Lobster Omelette with herbs) 

Loong Sue (Tea) 

Side Dishes 

Mut Geoong Li Chee Gon 

(Ginger in Syrup) (Chinese nuts) 

A BEEFSTEAK SUPPER FOR THE MEN OF 
THE TOWN 

The plan that a committee of bright women adopted 
to raise money for a local library in need of books, was 
a beefsteak supper for the men of the town, the success 
of which was greater than the patronesses had dared 
hope for. 

Invitations were written, but the Enghsh employed 
was that of Merrie England of old, with long S's and 
sealed flaps instead of envelopes. Each man likely 
to be interested in the idea received the following an- 
nouncement: 

My Dear Sir: 

Itt is with pleasure wee announce to you ye heartie Beef- 
steak Supper to bee offered to ye men of our community on 
(date) at (hour), ye place of mee tinge (address), atte ye reason- 



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able price of one dollar ye guest. Ye cookyng will bee in ye 
hands of ye experienced chef. Ye suitable accompanyments 
to ye juicee beefsteak will not bee lacking and ye proceeds will 
goe to ye very necessary work of replenishing our local libraree. 
In this work wee believe you are too good a citizen not to bee 
warmly interested. With good wishes, my deare Sir, wee re- 
mayne, 

Your Humble Servants. 
Addresse ye Secretary of thys committee at 2220 Penton 
Avenue. 

The supper was held in a large basement and con- 
sistently with their agreement the committee had 
secured the services of a capital chef who broiled the 
steaks and prepared the principal viands. 

The best cooks among the ladies of the community 
were in the kitchen to assist with the minor dishes, 
but did not appear on the scene, the repast being 
served by men waiters. The greater part of the 
edibles were donated by townsfolk. 

A band of three string pieces stationed just outside 
the door played at intervals during the feast and a 
negro minstrel sang plantation melodies. 

The long tables were most effectively though in- 
expensively decorated. A large centerpiece of vege- 
tables supplied the motive which was carried through- 
out the decorations. 

This centerpiece consisted of a large mat of parsley 
on which were heaped up cleanly scrubbed turnips, 
carrots, beets, cauliflower, red peppers and cress. 



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Cabbages hollowed out and lined with tin foil were 
filled with celery, olives, pickles, potato salad and 
cole-slaw, the first three on beds of shaved ice. 

Crockery was used for china and shiny new tinware 
for silver. Coffee was served in tin cups. 

At each plate was a place card (cut with jagged 
edges as if torn) of heavy butcher's paper, having 
written on it the name of the guest to occupy that 
particular seat, and below a limerick based upon his 
fads, his achievements, amiable weakness, etc. 

The function went off so well and was so well pa- 
tronized that other stag functions may succeed in the 
course of time for other benevolent objects in the 
same locality. 

A BEEFSTEAK SUPPER FOR BOTH SEXES 

One dollar a head was charged at a beefsteak supper 
for which the following invitations were sent out. 
The invitations were written on folders of ordinary 
manila paper and were rhymed as follows: 

To a Beefsteak Dinner you're invited. 
And if you'll come, we'll be delighted. 
Please come as simple country dames, 
Fresh from the farm and country lanes. 
The men just Hi, Si, Hank, and Bill — 
All welcome guests at Lemon Hill. 
Eat all you can for the dollar price. 
Steaks and company equally nice. 



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Each person at this frohc found his place by means 
of a novel place-card. This was a large square of 
corrugated pasteboard to which was loosely attached 
a very dainty water-color sketch or tinted photograph 
of a country maiden or farmer youth in countr}^ cos- 
tume. The picture was intended to be removed after 
the queer mount had raised a laugh. One of these was 
hung by a light rope over the back of each chair, and 
on it was written some original name for the person 
designated. Recognizing each man or woman by 
the nickname created much amusement, as those 
knowing each other best were grouped at the same 
table. Most of the guests, taking their hint from the 
invitations, came in comic costume intended to repre- 
sent farmer folk. 

A CHOCOLATE TEA 

While a chocolate tea is a capital plan to almost any 
committee who wish to raise money by some simple 
means, its simphcity makes it particularly adaptable 
for a financial social event, conducted by young girls, 
most of whom are fond of the beverage and the sweet- 
meat on which it is founded. 

There should be a daintily appointed tea table with 
several girls in charge who pour chocolate and look 
after the welfare of visitors. 

Chocolate cake in various styles should be in evi- 
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As too much of the one flavor might be tiresome, it 
would be well to have sandwiches with filling of cream 
cheese and nuts or bread and butter folds without 
filling. For a large affair chocolate ice-cream or sun- 
dae mixtures might be added. 

This function would fit in nicely with one of the 
feminine burnt cork minstrel shows, which, with 
women only as actors, are proving such a success. 

Sell the chocolate at five cents a cup, cake at five 
cents a portion, ice-cream at ten cents, and sand- 
wiches five cents each. Charge five or ten cents addi- 
tional as entrance fee to the minstrel show. 

Home-made dainties are, of course, solicited as 
contributions in advance, in order that profits as 
nearly as possible may be clear. 



A CANNY LUNCHEON MAY HELP OUT THE 
^^LADIES' AID'' 

For the Ladies' Aid, which seems in its "hours of 
gloom" to have given "everything under the sun," 
the idea of a canny luncheon, where everything served 
comes out of either can or bottle, may come as an 
inspiration. The finest grade of tinned goods should 
be provided. 

For the invitations cut from paper shapes repre- 
senting cans with a lid which can be raised, and on the 
under side of the Ud write the following: 



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Dear Miss Mayhew: 

I am sending you a can which contains a hearty invitation 

to a Canned Luncheon in aid of the Church to be given 

on September 3d at twelve thirty. The subscription price is 
seventy-five cents a head. Trusting that you won't "can" 
this invitation, I remain, 

Sincerely Yours (etc.) 

Have for place-cards the pictures of big fruit or 
vegetables which come so highly colored on the out- 
side of tinned goods. Stiffen these with cardboard, 
and cut out one for each guest. Write on them the 
familiar motto, 

Eat What You Can and Can What You Can't, 

and below the motto the name of the guest who will 
occupy that particular seat. 

When the guests sit down, several kinds of dainty 
bottled relishes are already served. Olives, pickles, 
anchovies, filleted herring with bread sticks and butter 
would make a dainty relish course or appetizer. 

Then have soup, but let it be of the best brands 
only. With the soup, tiny oyster crackers would be 
nice. 

Let the entree be tinned crabmeat creamed and 
served on toast. Or mushrooms (the bottled variety) 
might be creamed and served in patty shells. 

Jellied fowl with canned green peas would make a 
tasty piece de resistance, and for salad have canned 



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asparagus with French dressing, or canned macedoine 
of vegetables with mayonnaise. Or canned salmon 
with mayonnaise, on lettuce leaves, would make a 
substantial salad course. The bottled dressing must 
be used to carry out the idea. 

For dessert have delicious tinned cherries or tinned 
pineapple, with cakes which come in cartons, and one 
of the many popular brands of coffee which come in a 
tin container. 

For table favors have little bottles of candies, barley 
sugar, or other sweets tied with ribbon. 



A FISH SUPPER FOR ANGLERS 

One committee found the following plan a success: 
Little fishing-poles, seven or eight inches long, were 
fashioned of small sticks and cord, and to each line 
was attached a card having the invitation written on 
it in the form of the following unique question: 

"Can we catch you for a Fish Supper on May 29th, at 7.30 

P.M.?" 

The name, address, and price followed. 

Some of the invitations were delivered by messenger, 
and others, in little boxes, went safely through the 
mails. 

For the table centerpiece at the supper a globe of 
goldfish was securely embedded at the top of a little 



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rockery made of smooth, prettily colored beach stones, 
seaweed (kale from the market will serve), pebbles, 
and shells. Over this hung a little sign reading, 

"No Fishing Here. Private Property.'' 

The place-card, on which each man's name was 
written, was caught in a very realistic oyster shell of 
papier-mache, such as are sold in candy stores as 
bonbonnieres. The menu was written on the re- 
verse side of two large fish cut out of cardboard and 
realistically tinted with water-color. 

Side-dishes contained the candies known as ^^ peb- 
bles," which looked as if they might have been gath- 
ered upon the seashore, and candle-shades were 
covered with steel spangles, sewed on to overlap in 
imitation of fish-scales. 

During the repast, and afterwards over the coffee, 
each man was called on to relate ^'My best day's 
sport." This, of course, was understood to mean an- 
gling, for the company was made up of fellow fisher- 
men; and, furthermore, each one was expected to re- 
late an amusing ^^fish story." 

The menu was as follows: Caviar relish; clam 
bouillon with oyster crackers; creamed lobster in in- 
dividual ramekins, with rolls and butter; baked blue- 
fish with French-fried potatoes; crab salad; whole 
wheat bread and butter sandwiches stamped out in 
the shape of fish with a cooky-cutter; coffee; ice- 



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cream molded in the form of lobsters and other sea 
food; lady-fingers; wafers and cheese. 



A ^^MILLUN" FESTIVAL FOR WATERMELON 

SEASON 

When the succulent melon is at its best and cheap- 
est, a most delightful party can be founded upon it. 
The idea is equally good indoors or out, for adults or 
children, for a small gathering or for one in which a 
hundred or more participate. 

To get it up so as to have a strong flavor of original- 
ity precede the flavor of the melon, cut out from egg- 
shell cardboard as many shapes resembling crescent 
moons as you will issue invitations. Tint these on one 
side in bands of pink and green to represent the melon 
rind and pulp, and dot with tiny black specks for seeds. 

Words might be cunningly devised on this plan: 

"A monster melon am gwine to be opened at Mis' Merriam's, 

in Southwark avenue, August de . Pickaninny, come he'p 

eat dat melon an' 'joy yo'se'f. Only fifty cents ter git in and 
eat all ye kin hold." 

A pleasant plan for the entertainment would be as 
follows: Guests received and feasted with melon. 
Games founded on the fruit of the hour, followed by 
supper with melon symbols in the table adornment. 

The prime requisite is sufi&cient melon of superb 



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quality for all who may by any possibility attend the 
festival, but sandwiches and hot coffee are frequently 
a grateful addition to the fruit. 

Roasted peanut sandwiches are nice for such an 
occasion, or dainties made of peanut butter with 
chopped olives used on bread of any kind, or pecan- 
and-date finger folds; the two ingredients chopped 
very fine and moistened with cream. 

A pretty way to produce the cut-up melon for 
serving is in the rind of a particularly splendid speci- 
men of the fruit. 

Amusements might take the general character of 
athletic sports, for one of which the target game, re- 
vised, will do. For this have a melon or the empty 
shell of one poised upright on a barrel. Provide soft 
rubber balls and a pan of powdered chalk or flour. 
Let each have five balls representing five ^^ shies," 
which he may have at the melon. Five balls only are 
actually needed for the game, but it is well to have a 
couple of extra ones in case any are lost. The melon 
will make a capital prize. Prizes for marksmanship 
of members of each sex could be offered, if desired. 

Small green melons, if these can be had (and usually 
they will be found among the quantity bought whole- 
sale for the picnic) , afford a funny race game where the 
fruit is pushed over the course with the toe of one's 
shoe. Have a starting-point and a goal, and let the 
winners match each other in final championship races. 



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Let the boys race, holding melons on their heads, 
while the girls play the game of stringing the seeds as 
before described. These will be much better for a 
large number than seated contests, or question-and- 
answer games, which would be likely to miss fire with 
some of the younger boys and girls. 

Another capital contest which might be used if 
a long entertainment is planned is the following: 
Give each of three young people a large sheet of wrap- 
ping paper, in the center of which he must kneel, and 
a jar of watermelon seeds. See who can soonest make 
a square around himself by laying the seeds close to- 
gether along the edge of the paper. 



AN OYSTER DINNER 

At an oyster dinner given early in the fall the idea 
of the returned bivalve was carried throughout the 
menu and decorations in many original little ways, 
which made for merriment. 

For the centerpiece of the table the services of a 
wide-awake florist had been called into requisition. 
He constructed with autumnal asters of daintily 
blended colors a huge R representing, it is almost need- 
less to say, the letter which marks the opening of the 
oyster season. This was so constructed as to lie flat 
upon the table, and all round it were grouped favors 
representing little oyster shells, each of which con- 



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tained an inexpensive pin set with seed pearls. From 
the shells ribbons of a color that combined prettily 
with that of the asters radiated to each cover, and 
by pulling these at the end of the feast each guest re- 
ceived his gift. 

The place-cards were gray tinted and were deco- 
rated with sketches of oyster shells, sea moss, etc., 
and on each was written a quotation regarding the 
shellfish. Guests amused themselves between courses 
in recalling the names of the authors. Some of the 
verses were: 

I. 

An oyster may be crossed in love. 

R. B. Shertoan. 

II. 

There take (says Justice) take ye each a shell. 
They thrive at Westminster on fools like you. 
'Twas a fat oyster — ^live in peace — adieu. 

Alexander Pope. 

III. 

Why then the world's mine oyster, 
Which I with sword will open. 

William Shakspere. 

IV. 

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have 
not an R in their name to eat an oyster. Sam. Butler. 

Other selections equally applicable to an oyster 
function can be obtained through the public library. 



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The hors d'oeuvre dishes were nothing less than nat- 
ural oyster shells, extra large ones being selected and 
thoroughly cleansed for the purpose. These contained 
Philadelphia pepper pot and other reKshes. 

The menu consisted of oyster cocktail, oyster stew, 
boiled chicken with oyster sauce, deviled oysters in 
rice cups next, with a plain salad, and for dessert ice- 
cream molded in the form of oyster shells, served with 
oyster crackers coated in the way so popular now 
with chocolate. 

The oyster stew quoted was somewhat original. It 
was made by this rule: In butter the size of an egg, 
which has been nicely browned in the pan, cut up sev- 
eral stalks of celery and cook the latter slowly until 
thoroughly done. Add a quart of oysters with the 
liquor and cook until the edges curl. After the curled 
look appears cook about ten minutes longer, season 
with salt and pepper if liked. Serve with oyster 
crackers crisped in the oven. 

The deviled oysters, too, may require a word of 
direction in the interest of young housekeepers. To 
prepare them a tablespoonful of chopped onion and 
the same quantity of chopped green pepper are cooked 
for five minutes in two tablespoonfuls of butter. To 
this is added half a cup of strained juice from the 
oysters, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, a tablespoonful 
of tomato catsup, a teaspoonful of prepared mustard, 
a pinch of cayenne, and two cupfuls of oysters chopped. 
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Simmer five minutes and serve very hot in rice cups 
made by the recipe which follows: 

Half cook enough rice to fill two cups and add to it 
three ounces of melted butter. Mold in small cups 
or tin molds which have previously been wet with ice 
water and set away in the refrigerator to chill. Just 
before serving unmold the ice, and with a small spoon 
hollow out each shape. Brush inside and out with 
melted butter and crisp in a hot oven, using a baking 
slide to avoid breaking them. When nicely brown 
they will be ready for the oysters. 

After supper several little contests were arranged 
by the hostess (to revert to the description), and a 
prize of a set of oyster forks awarded for the cleverest 
work in the series. For instance, cards were passed 
and players were required to make sketches of oysters, 
using their own invention as to selection of the still- 
Hfe subjects. The sketch, which represented a half 
dozen oysters on the half-shell, won for the artist the 
right of drawing for the prize. Another competition 
consisted in forming other terms out of the words 
oyster shell, and a third in writing a little essay tell- 
ing all that the writer knew about pearls. 

The price per capita at which a committee can 
clear a good sum by means of an oyster supper will 
depend upon the number of courses to be offered, the 
expenses, if any, incurred in renting the hall, and on 
other points which control the profits. Perhaps under 



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ordinary circumstances seventy-five cents a plate 
would represent both a popular price and one at which 
a reasonable profit can be counted on. 

A PEACH FESTIVAL 

Coming later in the season than. the old-fashioned 
strawberry festival, a peach festival can preserve the 
general characteristics of the older sociable, introduc- 
ing new features. 

Either admission is charged at the door, after which 
the guest is entitled to a portion of the good things 
within, or admission is free, with a reasonable tariff 
on edibles and drinkables. These should include 
generous quantities of peach shortcake and ice-cream, 
peach pie, and pudding; cut peaches with country 
cream and various kinds of sandwiches or plain bread 
and butter. Lemonade, ginger-ale, hot coffee, iced 
coffee, root beer, iced tea, and grape juice are all ad- 
visable investments for a hot weather fair. Peach 
pies and shortcake as well as prettily trimmed baskets 
of ripe peaches could be sold separately, donations 
being solicited so that all receipts represent pure gain. 

A CHERRY BREAKFAST AT FIFTY CENTS A 

COVER 

The idea of this choice fruit, the very shortness of 
whose season seems to render it specially delicious, 
could be used for a pay entertainment. 



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A cherry breakfast, for instance, would be delight- 
ful for out-of-town residents at cherry time. 

The Kttle cards decorated with cherry sprays could 
be used, or larger cherries could be cut from rough 
art paper or card-board and tinted. The wording may 
be either in rhyme, if the committee is ingenious in 
that way, or conventional ones may be used, for which 
this is a convenient form: 

"Ep worth League'' cordially requests your presence at a 
cherry breakfast to be given at the Hedges, 543 Burlington 
Road, June — , at 11 a.m. (Tickets, fifty cents each.) An 
early reply will be greatly appreciated. 

For the table decoration use a blue and white 
Chinese bowl filled with cherry blossoms — the arti- 
ficial ones — unless the real blossoms happen to be 
easily available. Around this have little bunches of 
fine cherry sprays and foliage arranged wreathwise. 

Fill the side dishes with marzipan cherries, candied 
cherries, and glaced cherries, filled with fondant. 

The following courses would make up a tasty and 
novel menu: 

Cherries au naturel. 

Cherry omelet. Hot biscuit. 

Cherry croquettes. Finger rolls and butter. 

Cherry salad. Bread and butter sandwiches. 

Cherry pie. Coffee and whipped cream. 

Frozen cherries. Cherry rolypoly. 

Cherry bonbons. 



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For the first course, cherries au naturel, provide 
little individual glass baskets, which may be obtained 
in all sizes. Tie the handles with ribbon, and in each 
offer a few specially fine sweet cherries, which are 
eaten with or without sugar. The little glass baskets 
are retained as souvenirs. 

Next have a cherry omelet. This is the ordinary 
sweet fruit omelet, but with bottled cherries as filling, 
instead of other fruit or preserves, folded in. 

For the solid course have the croquettes made 
round and envelop each in scarlet paper to resemble 
a cherry. Cut cherry leaves from green paper and 
bring the croquettes to the table decorated with these. 
A single twist unwraps the croquette, and the paper 
covering assists in keeping the contents hot. 

With these cherry croquettes serve finger rolls, 
which may be arranged in stacks upon the luncheon 
table, held in place with scarlet ribbons. 

Next cherry salad figures. For this extra large or 
California cherries are needed. The stone of each 
little fruit is removed and a nut meat substituted. 
Serve individually on lettuce heart sprinkled with 
French dressing. Do not have too many cherries to 
each portion. About four will be sufficient. 

The dessert courses would be appropriate. First, 
cherry pie served with coffee and whipped cream; 
secondly, frozen cherries and cherry rolypoly, after 
which the various cherry bonbons are distributed. 



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AN APPLE BREAKFAST FOR SUMMER 

Whatever the hour decided upon, the invitations 
can be extremely pretty. Prepare them in this way: 
Have heavy Hnen note sheets for them, and at the head 
of each sheet paint in water color a spray of leaves in 
Kate Greenaway style, with one rosy apple pendent 
therefrom. Below each apple bough could be a quo- 
tation about the fruit. It adds to the effect if this 
quotation is written in red ink and fancy lettering is 
employed. 

Lunch cloths with a design of apples are easily em- 
broidered by the needleworker, or they can be ob- 
tained in the shops, and one of these, when practicable, 
makes a pretty touch in the decorations. 

For the centerpiece, have a charming old-fashioned 
epergne piled high with the fruit of the occasion, and 
some pretty foliage of the apple tree. It is effective 
to have apples of a different color on each tier, begin- 
ning with the tiny lady apples, alternating, if these 
are obtainable at the time, on the top of the dish. 

Have strings of red and green apples crossing each 
other, suspended above the table, and for place-cards 
have rosy apples cut from art paper and colored, or 
apple bonbonnieres filled with candies can have con- 
ventional place-cards of small size tied to their stems 
with ribbon. 

At one apple feast, given with great success, the first 



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course was a fruit salad served in porcelain apples, the 
red and green of which added a very charming note 
to the scheme. Where these are not available, the 
natural fruit can be cut in half and used as cups. 
When the Hd is added, the ejffect is that of a whole 
fruit on the plate. 

Let the principal course of the menu, which may be 
either chops, beefsteak, or an omelet, come to the 
table decorated with bacon and fried apples. With 
any one of these French-fried potatoes would be appe- 
tizing, and hot biscuit or toast with butter. 

The salad might be a combination of pineapple, 
white grapes, and bits of apple, served in apple 
baskets, or in green-apple forms of crepe paper over 
cardboard. 

With this pass the coffee, cream cheese (having a 
few walnut meats stirred into it), and toasted crackers. 

The dessert might appropriately be a French 
compote of apples made by cooking the peeled fruit 
until transparent in a thick syrup flavored with ginger 
root. Serve very cold with angel food or dehcate 
sponge cake. Baked apples decorated with whipped 
cream and candied ginger, or apple fritters, or apple 
dumplings could be substituted for the compote if 
desired. 

After breakfast have the company adjourn to the 
porch or living room to enjoy an apple game. 

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apples. Each guest takes one, and on opening it 
finds a little card and a sharpened pencil. On the 
former the following questions appear: 
What apple is found in the sea? (Crab.) 
Which is sharpest? (Thorn.) 
Which is a favorite for summer shoes? (Russet.) 
Which is a great American river? (St. Lawrence.) 
Which a natural beverage? (Cider.) 
Which the friend of a BibKcal King? (Jonathan.) 
Which makes a warm coat? (Astrakhan.) 
Which gives a crusading knight? (Baldwin.) 
Which appears in the calendar? (May.) 
Which is found only in the winter? (Snow.) 
Which belongs to the gentler sex? (Lady.) 
Which is highest in position? (President.) 
Which should appear in court? (Lawyer.) 
Give a piece of china, or a plate or pitcher, with 
apple design, as a prize for the best set of answers. 

The committee giving an apple feast for church or 
charitable purposes will find the plan given above full 
of inspiration; but where it is desired to offer the 
meal at a low price, say thirty-five cents a head, a 
little cutting down may be necessary. For instance, 
the porcelain apples for the fruit salad would make 
way for natural ones hollowed out, and green tickets 
might take the place of the elaborate invitations, 
although neighborhood talent freely contributed will 
often make the individual "invites" a possibihty. 



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AN INDIAN MEAL 

For a philanthropic affair given in holiday times 
try a church supper, which is heralded as an Indian 
Meal, and for which seats are sold at fifty cents. In- 
vitations are written on imitation birch-bark or on 
the clean portions of old leather gloves, cut square 
and stiffened with pasteboard. 

Let the decorations of the hall be as Indian-y as 
possible. Bank the walls with Christmas trees and 
let the aides dress as Minnehaha. Decorate the table 
with white pine branches and snowdrops in combina- 
tion with Indian moccasins, snow-shoes, bow and 
arrows, and other picturesque things offered by the 
Indian goods departments of our large stores. Of 
course, the flowers and greens, or one or the other of 
these, according to convenience, will be used in a 
woven Indian basket. 

The supper includes much Indian meal in the menu 
as well as in the name. It might begin with Indian 
meal porridge, served with thick country cream and 
maple syrup. 

Fried mush, baked Indian meal pudding, and corn 
muffins galore eke out the bill of fare. Cold turkey 
or fowl should be the meat course. For dessert 
have Indian heads or tomahawks (Washington's 
Birthday hatchet molds will serve for the last of these) 
carried out in ice-cream. 



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A CHERRY FESTIVAL FOR CHERRY TIME 

As a variation upon the more familiar strawberry- 
festival, one Sunday school committee gave a cherry 
feast, which was so well approved and patronized that 
other schools might copy it. 

Advantage was taken of the height of the cherry 
season in order to buy the finest fruit at wholesale 
rates. The invitation cards were decorated with 
cherry sprays in natural tints, with the opening hues 
from Herrick's famous verse, 

"Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, 
Full, and fair ones, come and buy.'' 

followed by the words, ^Xherry Festival," with the 
place, date, day, hour, and admission price. 

On the day appointed tables charmingly decorated 
with artificial cherry blossoms and sprays of the fruit 
were spread under the trees. The blossoms were ar- 
ranged in a vase or bowl, and around them sprays of 
cherries and foliage were laid so as to form a ring. 

Here were served various cherry delicacies, among 
them cherry pies, cherry rolypoly, frozen cherries with 
cake, etc. 

From a music stand trimmed in the cherry colors 
of scarlet and green a band played at twenty-minute 
intervals selections especially bearing upon early 
summer time. 



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Little bottles of preserved cherries tied with red 
ribbon were presented as souvenirs to the women 
guests. 



AN OYSTER FESTIVAL FOR AUTUMN 

What the strawberry festival is to June and the 
peach festival to August, the oyster festival may well 
be to November. 

For strawberries and cream, substitute oyster stew; 
for ice-cream of the berry flavor, oysters broiled 
or creamed; for strawberry-shortcake, oyster pie or 
pudding, and with a little judicious advertising, much 
as it was done for the summer fruit, the affair is ar- 
ranged. 

With regard to the advertising the idea of the bi- 
valve, its deliciousness and its limited stay, may be 
conveyed in many humorous ways. 

For instance, the placards tacked up in places pub- 
lic or semi-pubKc might lead off the announcement 
with a huge capital R. This will catch the eye of the 
passer-by, and reading further he learns about the 
event to come off. 

For the tables try to secure a number of perfect 
oyster shells carefully matched. These should be 
washed, dried, and glued together to enclose little five 
or ten cent gifts. 

Catch in each oyster shell a ribbon and heap the 



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shells up in the center of the table or tables with the 
ribbons running to the different covers. There should^ 
of course, be one oyster shell for each guest. Tickets 
being sold will make it possible to compute how many 
little prize-favors will be required. 

The menu for the supper might read: 

I. Oysters on the half-shell. 2. Oyster stew with 
oyster crackers. 3. Oysters panned, broiled, or 
creamed with sandwiches and coffee. 4. Oyster pie 
or pudding. 5. Plain salad and coffee, wafers and 
cheese. 6. Ice-cream molded in the shape of oysters 
and served with oyster crackers coated with chocolate. 



GIVING A DINNER IN ITALIAN STYLE 

The sensation of the season in a town of moderate 
size was the Italian Dinner, at seventy-five cents a 
head, given by a progressive lot of women. There 
was nothing about the meal which other capable or- 
ganizers could not readily copy. 

The table was decorated to suggest the flag of 
Italy. Two broad bands of silk, one green, one red, 
were placed across the cloth at the ends of the table. 
They hung over the edges of the board like scarfs. 
The centerpiece consisted of blue, red and white 
flowers arranged by a florist to represent the shield 
which occupies the central white field. 

Tiny cotton flags in the appropriate colors floated 



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from the various side dishes, and the bread sticks, etc., 
were tied together with knots of green, red, and white 
baby-ribbon. 

To insure full appreciation of the foreign dishes, 
individual menus, giving the unusual names, were 
laid at each plate. These bills of fare were written 
on the reverse side of pretty brown prints of Dante 
in exile, which, when guests came to the table, were 
turned picture upwards. 

At the head of the menu was written the name of 
the guest to occupy that particular cover, thus making 
it a guest card also. 

The menu ran: First, 

ZuppA Regina Di Riso 
Or Queen's rice soup, for which this is the recipe: 
Put a tablespoonful of rice flour into a saucepan and 
add half a pint of milk gradually. Boil gently in a 
double boiler twelve minutes, stirring all the time 
in order to have it very smooth. Just before serving 
time add a tablespoon of butter, pass it through a 
sieve, and mix with good fowl stock, which should be 
very hot when added. 

Salmone alla Santa Fiorentina — Salmon 
Steep a piece of boiled salmon in oil, lemon juice, 
salt and herbs for an hour. Remove the bone and 
cut the fish into fillets or individual portions. Wipe 



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dry the fillets, dip them in beaten eggs, and fry them 
a nice color. Arrange them in a ring on the dish, 
trim with fried parsley and serve with mayonnaise. 



Animelle Lardellate — Sweetbreads 
For this entree two sweetbreads are blanched, 
larded and cooked very slowly in good stock. The 
stock is skimmed and reduced by boiling to a glaze 
to cover the meat. The latter is then cut into three 
or four pieces and arranged round a dish, but the 
larding must be well glazed over. In the center of 
the dish place a cup made of hoUowed-out bread filled 
with a macedoine of vegetables. 

MaNZO ALLA CeRTOSINA — FiLLET OF BeEF 

Select a tender rump steak or fillet of beef and put 
it in a stewing pan with two slices of fat bacon and 
three teaspoonfuls of the best olive oil. Season with 
salt and a suspicion of nutmeg. Cook without a 
cover and turn the meat from time to time. When 
nicely browned, add an anchovy, mixed with some 
herbs, all very finely chopped, and a small clove of 
garlic with one incision across it. Cover the whole 
with good stock, put the cover on the pan, and when 
tender, skim the grease off the gravy, put the latter 
through a sieve and pour over the meat. Do not 
let the garlic remain in the pot more than five minutes. 



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Carote e Piselli alla Panna — Carrots with Peas 
Half cook an equal amount of peas and tender 
young carrots, cutting the latter into little squares of 
handy size and cooking them rather longer than the 
peas. Now place them together in a stew-pan with 
three or four tablespoonfuls of cream and cook till 
tender. Serve very hot. 

Macaroni alla Livornese 
Cook several nice mushrooms in milk, with a little 
pepper and salt. Boil in water four ounces of maca- 
roni. Put a layer of the paste into a buttered fire- 
proof dish, then a layer of tomato puree, then a layer 
of the mushrooms and another layer of the macaroni. 
Dust lightly with grated Parmesan cheese, and brown 
in the oven — about half an hour. 

Insalate alla Navarino — Salad 
Prepare a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a tea- 
spoonful of onion minced, a teaspoonful of tarragon 
and chopped chives with half a gill of oil and the same 
of vinegar. Put this in a bowl with any sort of cold 
vegetables liked and mix thoroughly, but without 
breaking the greens. Add two or three anchovies (in 
oil), and on the top place three or four ripe tomatoes 
cut in slices. A little cooked smoked ham may be 
added with advantage. 



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Crema Tartara alla Caramella — Caramel 
Cream 

Boil up a pint of cream and flavor it with any flavor 
liked. When cold, add eight egg yolks, two table- 
spoonfuls granulated sugar. Stir the mixture well 
and put through a strainer. Brown some more sugar 
to form a caramel, line a smooth mold with it and 
turn in the custard. Cook in a double boiler for half 
an hour and serve either hot or cold. 



THE PROGRESSIVE HAY RIDE 

An idea for a frolic which paid abundantly at fifty 
cents a head was a combination of Progressive Supper 
and old-fashioned Hay Ride. 

The young people wore "country fixin's" of ankle- 
length skirts and calico aprons for the girls, many of 
whom wore their hair hanging in braids tied with 
ribbon bows, and blue jeans and broad-brimmed hay- 
makers' hats were affected by the men. The hay- 
wagon was gaily trimmed with bunting and bunches 
of goldenrod, and the party was limited to a reasonable 
number to avoid the crowding and discomfort which 
sometimes mar the fun of such excursions. 

Stops were made at six places, at each of which a 
course of the supper was served. The first five stops 
were at private homes. At the first of these hot 
bouillon in cups and crackers were dispensed to the 



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rural merrymakers. At the second house half a mile 
further on they enjoyed creamed fish in paper cases, 
sliced cucumbers, and hot rolls and butter. After an- 
other short ride, the main course consisting of chicken 
with peas and roast sweet potatoes was reached. The 
fourth was, of course, a salad, for which the refreshing 
tomato-jelly was chosen, served with bread-and- 
butter sandwiches and cocoa. A little further on they 
found awaiting them ice-cream in molds representing 
baskets of potatoes and other rural emblems. The 
sixth and last course, consisting of coffee and bon- 
bons, was partaken of at a popular wayside inn. Here 
the remainder of the evening was spent, a portion of 
it in a rustic cotillion with favors of tissue-paper sun- 
bonnets, miniature agricultural tools tied with ribbon, 
funny little wooly sheep, and papier-mache shorthorns. 



A MOTHER GOOSE SUPPER AT TWENTY- 
FIVE CENTS A HEAD 

At one such supper the various edibles for which 
Mother Goose characters are celebrated went to make 
up the menu and each was placarded accordingly. 

Thus the cold-meat dish bore the names of Jack 
and Mrs. Sprat. 

The famous ^^ gammon" (ham) was served baked 
hot, while spinach (attractively molded) accompanied 
it as in the rhyme. 



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Humpty Dumpty took the form of a tasty stuffed- 
egg salad. 

Miss Muffett appeared in a dessert dish of curds 
and whey (rennet with fruit flavoring). 

Simple Simon and Jack Horner furnished an abun- 
dance of pie. 

Mary Quite Contrary sent the flowers for the center- 
piece, which was artistically mounted upon conch 
shells such as are still seen in old-fashioned gardens. 
The candlesticks were draped in tissue-paper skirts 
to suggest Nancy Etticoat. 

There was, of course, the famous bag pudding of 
the time ^^When good King Arthur ruled the land," 
served in slices with a sauce. 

The Queen of Hearts furnished some tarts, only 
in this case they were an entree of tart-shells filled 
with button mushrooms and chopped pimentoes in 
cream sauce. 

Dinner rolls masqueraded as hot cross buns and 
were marked ^'One a penny, two a penny" lest any 
one fail to appreciate their appropriateness. 

Instead of hors d'oeuvre dishes, ^^ there were" four 
*^ ships a-sailing" made of hoUowed-out fruit with 
paper sails and, as in the rhyme, there "were almonds 
in the cabin and raisins in the hold." 

At each cover were little objects which suggested 
the name or individuality of the guest in Mother 
Goose parlance. Thus a lady whose Christian name 



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was Mary had a Kttle white toy-shop lamb. An ex- 
tremely lovely and popular girl was compelled to 
occupy a seat marked ^^For the Queen of Hearts." 
No names were attached, the object in every case 
giving some clue as to the identity of the guest. 



A PROGRESSIVE AUTOMOBILE DINNER 

A dinner which filled every requirement as to origin- 
ality and which yet proved a financial success was an 
automobile repast, served at seventy-five cents a head. 

The automobiles belonged to members of the party 
who were in the secret, and these made the rounds of 
the different residences, conveying them first, we will 
say, to Mrs. A's little villa. 

Here they were seated as for a conventional dinner, 
and enjoyed a course of chicken gumbo with nicely 
salted biscuit. This over, those not in the secret 
naturally looked for the arrival of some little entree, 
but instead thereof their astonished eyes saw the 
trim maid appear carrying a dish of English walnuts. 

These were gravely passed to each one in turn, nut 
crackers accompanying the dish. When broken, the 
nutshells revealed a note announcing that the com- 
pany would proceed to Mrs. B's, there to partake of 
the second course. 

Wraps were donned, and away sped the cars, the 
ride presenting a real treat to the greater part of the 



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countryside with whom automobiles represented a 
luxury. 

At Mrs. B's they had creamed chicken and mush- 
rooms with rolls and butter, and here a tissue-paper 
bag attached above the dining-room door was burst 
by means of pendant ribbons, Jack Horner fashion, 
scattering little cards which invited ^^all those present" 
to proceed to Mrs. C's. Of course in each progression 
the former hosts and hostesses were gathered up and 
hurried along, the number increasing as the party 
progressed. 

Mrs. C served ducks on fried hominy, with apple 
sauce and glazed sweet potatoes. 

When ample time had been devoted to this main 
course of the meal a little boy costumed as a postman 
brought in postals addressed to all the different mem- 
bers of the company, signed with the name of the 
next hostess, inviting them to visit her quite informally 
that evening and offering salad and coffee. With this 
went wafers and cheese or it may have been little 
finger rolls. The cream cheese was surrounded with 
bar le due. 

At this house the hostess received an important 
telegram which invited them farther on their way. 

Dessert was the last course, a delicious bombe, 
passed with fancy cakes and bonbons. Here, of 
course, there was no further progression, the com- 
pany remaining for a social hour or two. 



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Where the company is made up of young folks it 
would be a splendid idea to have one or more surprise 
messages with the last course, and to let this message 
invite the company to a dance further on. 



DINING WITH BARNUM 

This Circus Dinner is an idea equally adaptable 
for grown-ups or for young people, and can be served 
at fifty to seventy-five cents per capita according to 
the viands selected for the menu and the purchasing 
price of the locality in which it is given. 

In the center of the dining-table was a little cir- 
cular fence cut from flexible brown cardboard and 
pinned into the form of a circle. This fence enclosed 
several realistic toy animals, elephants or other circus 
beasties doing stunts on miniature barrels and a num- 
ber of droll little dolls dressed as clowns. 

Above the table, depending from the ceiling, hung 
an improvised trapeze, to which were attached two 
or three little dolls dressed like fair acrobats. Place- 
cards were tiny hoops covered with white paper, with 
the names of the guests written on the latter. 

The supper menu was a conventionally good one, 
with several characteristic touches. It consisted of: 
Circus Rings (circlets of toast spread with some piquant 
sauce served as an appetizer); Wild Beasts (sweet- 
bread croquettes with legs cut from meat skewers, 



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heads of olives, tiny onions, or cut from pickles, and 
tails of shoestring potatoes) went very ^^wild" as 
beasties, but provoked much laughter. With these 
went ^'hay;" that is, more of the shoestring potatoes; 
lamb chops a la cirque had the bones finished off with 
little paper clown caps instead of papillotes. These 
were passed with asparagus tips and green peas. Cir- 
cus punch was ice-cold lemonade tinted pink to sug- 
gest the beverage familiar to all circus-goers. The 
lemonade was slightly frapped and served in punch- 
glasses. 

Clowns were of ice-cream molded to represent the 
funny men of the ring. This was the only item for 
which outside help was employed, the clowns being 
supplied by a good confectioner. With them were 
passed little wobbly cakes of the sort that cannot 
stand upright, which were entered on the bill of fare 
as *^ Acrobats." 

At each cover stood a striped bag of salted peanuts 
labeled, ^^To Feed the Elephants," while a clown cap 
of white cardboard contained bonbons. Hot coffee 
was passed with these dainties. 



A POINSETTIA TEA 

It was the bright idea of one church congregation 
to combine a Poinsettia Tea and a Gift Shop where 
Christmas gifts prepared by the women interested 



For Church and Charity 151 

were on sale. The decorations were all carried out in 
the lovely scarlet poinsettia mingled with Yuletide 
green. Admission was by cards of invitation, and 
tea and wafers were served to all patrons. 

Some committees might find it possible and con- 
venient to serve a dainty luncheon a la carte. Creamed 
chicken and similar dainties, oysters, sandwiches, 
coffee and cocoa, cake, and hot rolls would be popular 
items for such a bill of fare. 



A FEAST OF LANTERNS 

A pretty idea for a church lawn social is a Feast of 
Lanterns, to which a twenty-five cents admission fee 
is asked. The invitations are issued on little lantern 
shapes (Oriental) cut from art paper and tinted. The 
lawn is charmingly decorated with the lanterns in 
great profusion, and guests are served at Kttle tables 
by young girls in Chinese costume. Have music at 
intervals during the evening and sell for refreshments 
tea, hot or iced, with wafers; ice-cream and cake, 
sandwiches and lemonade. Either of the drinkables 
could be five cents a portion with crackers, sandwiches 
five cents each and ice-cream with cake ten. Give 
the little paper lanterns which come four or five inches 
in length as souvenirs and have each lighted with a 
tiny taper when presented. 



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THE PICNIC AS A MONEY RAISER 

There could be no better choice in the way of a 
money raiser during the warm days than a picnic 
which can be made to combine many of the features of 
a fair without detracting from the informality and 
fun of the outdoor junketing. 

For such an event a corps of workers will, of course, 
be on the scene well in advance to plan the side issues 
and to have everything in working order. 

No admission should be charged, but the committee 
should lay its plans with great care that no dimes and 
pennies which can well be left within the picnic 
grounds is carried out of them. 

The catchpenny features will depend largely upon 
the outing itself, and upon the age and means of the 
guests expected. For instance, at a shore picnic an 
excellent scheme would be a novel kind of Klondike 
or grab bag called Captain Kidd's Hidden Treasure. 
Placards around the grounds excite curiosity by an- 
nouncing that the famous buccaneer is said to have 
left buried treasure on this particular spot in the pirate 
days. Then in one portion of the grounds is discov- 
ered an enclosure roped off with ropes swung between 
stakes. Admission fees of either five or ten cents may 
be charged to enter the enclosure according to the 
value of the bundles hidden in the sand. All bundles 
might be wrapped in gilt or silver paper. Each per- 



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son paying an entrance fee might be given a shovel 
and the nickel or dime paid entitles him to dig until 
something is unearthed. 

For a woodland outing arrange a Belated Christ- 
mas Tree. Deck a particularly tall and beautiful 
pine or cedar with gilt and silver tinsel, shaved white 
paper, and any Christmas tree trimmings which can 
be secured at the time. Amid the branches tie as 
many little bundles as the boughs will hold, or the 
busy hands of those interested can prepare. Sell 
the bundles at five cents or ten cents, and let the child 
clip down the one he selects, mounting to it on a lad- 
der if he so desires. 

A fake pedlar with a well-stocked pack of wares 
appropriate to the occasion might bring in quite a 
little. Let him sell pretty sunbonnets, fans with the 
date and place painted on them, candy, and chocolate 
cigars. 

A tintype man with a booth might do well at a large 
outing. 

Have a gipsy fortune teller or an Oriental palmist 
as at a bazaar, and arrange as many target games with 
balls as the space will admit. Three balls for Sambo 
or Aunt Nancy might cost five cents, and at a juve- 
nile picnic a juicy orange or a free trip to the peepshow 
would be abundant reward for two successful balls 
out of three. 

Have a Lemonade Well or booth in activity all 



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afternoon. The ade sells at five cents a glass, and 
with it there should be sandwiches priced five cents, 
or five-cent portions of doughnuts or cake. 

A peepshow could consist of local curiosities, heir- 
looms, and the like. Or a comic one could be pre- 
pared. For instance, the Fake Art Gallery given 
elsewhere. Or negro minstrels might give two per- 
formances during the day, charging ten cents admis- 
sion. 

The lemonade stand could be arranged in a tent 
where this is found easier to get up than a booth. 

A Fishing Pond arranged as at a fair is another good 
item: 

A SHAKSPEREAN SALE 

And Other New Plans for Fairs and Bazaars 
When one considers the delightful novelty that is 
possible in so considerable an undertaking as a church 
fair or sale, and the many new ideas that are available 
for it, there is a sense of disappointment in finding it so 
often insipid and commonplace. 

There are bright minds with nimble fingers on al- 
most every fair committee, and it has been abundantly 
proved that where women are willing to work in the 
cause of individuality in a sale, the financial rewards 
are often doubled without great addition to the initial 
expenditure. 



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As an example of what may be done in this way, the 
Shaksperean Sale recently given in aid of a popular 
philanthropy is worth describing. 

To begin, the placards that announced the sale, 
and which were displayed in shop windows and other 
public places fully ten days ahead, were printed in 
imitation of Old English text and were embellished 
with the ever-charming physiognomy of the Bard of 
Avon. 

Again, a glimpse of what was in store for the patron 
within was given on an inside door which was deco- 
rated to represent a book-cover with an illuminated 
title, leading directly to the hall. This was, I believe, 
^^The Plays of William Shakspere," or '^Shakspere's 
Men and Women." 

Immediately after paying their admission fees 
guests found themselves in Shakspere Land, but in a 
very mirthful and amusing manner. 

Each booth, it was found, was presided over by- 
some personage from the immortal plays, who offered 
for sale something in keeping with his role in the 
story. 

Thus, at the first stall the gentle Ophelia had charge 
of flowers and plants. With her white gown girded 
in at the waist and a crown of leaves and blooms in 
her softly-loosed hair, she made a most lovely flower 
maiden. 

The popular new idea of inducing more young men 



156 Money-making Entertainments 

to assist in selling was adopted at this fair with the 
greatest success, and at the second stall one encoun- 
tered King Lear, assisted by his faithful Cordelia, 
vending storm shoes, umbrellas, raincoats, barometers, 
funny little changeable weather forecasters, hair- 
curlers, and other necessaries for the inclement 
weather. 

Polonius, the thrifty and sententious, sold framed 
mottoes, books on economy, toy savings banks and 
household step-savers. 

Portia presided over college goods of all descrip- 
tions and school supplies. 

Miranda of The Tempest beguiled patrons with all 
kinds of tempting wares in some way related to Father 
Neptune. This stall was most prettily trimmed with 
sea-green crepe paper arranged to represent waves, 
with a frieze of shells, starfish and sponges. 

Among her wares were shell novelties for table 
favors, abalone ornaments, sponges, coral necklaces, 
water-color sketches of marine views, framed photo- 
graphs of old Ocean and books of an appropriate nature, 
as ocean romances, the wonders of the deep, Undine 
and Sintram. 

The fair and sprightly Beatrice, very handsome in 
her Tudor gown of richly colored brocade, was the 
attraction at The Bride Shop. She concerned herself 
chiefly with bridal trousseaux and lovers' remem- 
brances. She gayly exhorted the young couples who 



For Church and Charity 157 

flocked around her to avoid lovers' quarrels and to 
exchange in sign of amity the pretty little gold hearts 
and lockets which she had for sale. 

Of course, Desdemona was present, and of course 
she sold pillows of all descriptions, from the little 
square one for an infant's couch or cradle to the largest 
size of sofa or bed pillow. The stall was hung with 
dainty handkerchiefs, which, too, this lady appropri- 
ately vended. 

Lady Macbeth, whose knowledge of stains was so 
profound, naturally had in her care all kinds of scour- 
ing soaps and powders, disinfectants and ink-removers. 



A GARDEN FETE AND SALE 

An outdoor fete given in aid of the poor at a sum- 
mer resort partook of the nature of a garden party, a 
sale, and a picnic. There was a flower table, a garden 
implement table, a soft drinks booth, ice-cream parlor, 
and a grocery stall. In addition to these stalls girls 
in fancy costume peddled cut flowers in bouquets and 
cigarettes or cigars. A group of children danced and 
sung on the platform erected for dancing, and ren- 
dered certain scenes from a light comic opera in 
costume. Two small boys as pages "passed the hat." 

Later on, general dancing took place. 

Titania, looking as fairlylike as if she wafted direct 
from a Midsummer Night's Dream, presided over 



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perfumes, both in the form of powder or liquid, and 
made up in the form of dainty sachets. 

A supplementary booth was in charge of the Bard 
of Avon himself, who sold his own works both singly 
and in sets, also busts of himself, Shakspere parlor 
games, Shaksperean quotation books and framed 
mottoes. 

The side issues at this bazaar were numerous, and 
for the most part exceptionally clever. 

Thus, somewhere towards the front of the entrance 
to the hall we read that the Three Witches from Mac- 
beth would tell fortunes. This they did in an eerie 
gray cave built in three sections, so as to accommodate 
three subjects at one time without the conversations 
being audible, and occupying one entire corner of the 
room. The sorceresses did at all times a rushing 
business in vending the secrets of the future. 

Falstaff was represented in one of the little popular 
catch-penny schemes. The fat but valiant little 
knight was a dummy built over a huge hogshead. In 
his garments were made dozens of pockets. In each 
pocket a little ten-cent favor had been tucked away 
and each was marked on the outside with a cord bear- 
ing a number. Any person paying a dime was en- 
titled to choose a number and to receive the contents 
of the pocket represented by the number in question. 
Pages in Elizabethan costume attended on Sir John 
and sold his pockets. 



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IN DICKENS LAND 

Again, the philanthropically inclined public might 
be admitted for a few hours each day into ^'Dickens 
Land," where the picturesque should mingle with the 
comic and amusing, as it does in the deathless stories. 

Let Madame Mantalini display some pretty hats, 
with Kate Nickleby to assist her in disposing of her 
stock. She might also offer for sale garnitures of 
various sorts. Let this stall have a swinging sign 
which reads: 

Madame Mantalini, Millinery 

and have real hat-trees, if possible, for displaying the 
creations. It is a new and catchy idea to have the 
smartest-dressed girls of the neighborhood contribute 
headwear of their own fashioning for sale. Each hat 
should be clearly marked with the name of the fair 
designer. Any other articles of feminine costujne 
which can be conveniently handled are available. 

Lizzie Hexam could have charge of educational de- 
vices of all kinds both for little folks and for the schools. 

Dear Little Dorrit, the seamstress, could preside 
over work-baskets and work-bags, sewing materials, 
spools and "findings," and could also have charge of 
some make of patterns. 

Jenny Wren sells dolls, doll-houses, and everything 
appertaining thereto. 



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Captain Cuttle sells notebooks, memoranda pads, 
and ready reference devices of all kinds in which to 
'^make a note on" things to be remembered. 

Dora Copperfield (whom Miss Trotwood called 
Little Blossom) labors for the good of the cause in a 
most charming booth. 

The flower-decorated placard reads: "At the sign 
of the Little Blossom." Flowers of all kinds, both 
growing and cut, are sold, and from the green garlands 
that festoon the booth depend paper butterflies in 
many colors. Dora's pretty frock, bonnet and veil 
are readily copied from one of the early illustrations 
which are still reproduced in some editions of David 
Copperfield. 

Another idea is to have the "Child Wife" sell the 
cook-books, the use of which she never mastered; 
also harness, baskets, combs, collars, and other be- 
longings of small dogs. In the interest of the children 
she might also have on sale stuffed woolen replicas of 
the renowned "Jip." Mrs. Wilfer's stall is devoted 
to gloves. 

In a booth built like a ship, "Little Em'ly " and the 
Peggottys sell toy sailing vessels, fishing-rods and 
other angling supplies; books and pictures, too, about 
the sea. 

At one end of this booth Barkis the Carrier shows a 
choice assortment of unclaimed boxes and bundles, 
left over in his business, he explains, which he sells to 



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purchasers ignorant of their contents at ten cents the 
package. ^^ Noddy" Boffin could have charge of a 
Klondike, where little treasures wrapped in gilt and 
silver are unearthed from a (saw) dust heap at five 
cents a dig. 

Four times daily the Vincent Crummies, including 
the Infant Phenomenon, give a theatrical performance 
on the vaudeville order, with many original features, 
to which patrons of the fair are admitted on payment 
of a dime. 

^^Eats," specially good ones, could be available at 
Maypole Inn. Both inside and out, this dining-room 
represents the famous little hostelry of Barnaby Rudge. 
Guests are waited upon by Dolly Varden and Mrs. 
Varden, aided if necessary by other characters from 
the same tale. The figured muslin gowns and mob 
caps of mine hostesses here should add greatly to the 
picturesqueness of the little inn. 

Lest there be patrons who want something on the 
quick-lunch order without entering the formal dining- 
room, have an Oliver Twist Stall, where bowls of 
steaming coffee or cocoa, with bread and butter or 
buttered rolls, are served at a moment's notice. The 
Artful Dodger might assist Oliver in the distribution. 
These characterizations suggest what a clever com- 
mittee will find in Dickens Land for their purpose, 
rather than exhaust the subject or attempt to develop 
each idea to its fullest extent. 



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A DICKENS SALE IN COSTUME 

Let old Cap'n Cuttle, Walter, and Florence Dom- 
bey sell all kinds of articles with nautical flavor, water- 
color sketches of the sea, sea stories, and so on at a 
booth built to suggest a ship. 

Of course, little lame Jenny Wren has the doll booth 
with dolls of all sizes, sorts, and prices, and dolls' fur- 
nishings, wardrobes, etc. 

Let Fanny Squeers sell pens and all kinds of school 
supplies, assisted, if desired, by other members of the 
Squeers household or by ^'Tillie." 

Dick Swiveler and the Marchioness could dispense 
games, card decks, puzzles, etc., and Esther Summer- 
son might read palms. 

Let David Copperfield sell Dickens' works and other 
books. Bella Wilfer could have charge of all kinds of 
little feminine vanities for the toilet and the toilette. 

For costume and other details consult an illustrated 
edition of the famous "works." 



A FIVE AND TEN CENT BAZAAR 

The popularity everywhere of the dime and nickel 
stores suggested the idea of a Five and Ten Cent 
Fair, which proved a great success. 

The usual booths were arranged, but instead of the 
sometimes disproportionate prices, everything on sale 



For Church and Charity 163 

cost either ten cents, five cents, or ^^ three for a nickel," 
^Hwo for a dime," and so on. 

The array of booths included one for tinware, one 
for notions, a toilet need booth, a toy counter, one for 
china, one for candy, and one for simple aids to 
home carpentry. 



AN OLD HOMESTEAD BAZAAR 
Sometimes a good advertising line, one which can 
be displayed on placards and sown broadcast on hand- 
bills, counts many points toward the success of a fair 
where it is planned to expend much time upon scenic 
effects. Such a line, one which catches in the mem- 
ory, as it were, is afforded by the idea of The Old 
Homestead, and will be found equally good for a sale 
in city limits or out of town. 

All the features of the picturesque Old Homestead 
are represented in the hall, which should be carpeted 
in advance of the opening day with soft, velvety sod, 
through which walks made of fine sand or ashes wander 
in various directions to conduct the visitors to the 
various attractions. 

The aides should be in farmer costume, the men in 
blue ^'overalls" and haymaker hats, and the girls in 
aprons and sunbonnets. The bonnets can be made of 
pale pink, pale blue, and other light colors and can be 
extremely coquettish in shape. 



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At one side of the hall have the grass slope up gently 
to suggest a hill, and at the crest arrange tips of fir, 
having these quite diminutive to give a suggestion of 
perspective. All over the hill dot wooly sheep to be 
sold at five or ten cents, according to size. The 
children will be eager to buy conventional toys so dis- 
played which they would pass unnoticed in an ordin- 
ary toy stall. The little wooly figures can be obtained 
in small stores everywhere and in localities where 
novelties do not flourish. 

A real live cow being milked before the visitors, 
who are asked to purchase the creamy fluid at five 
cents a glass, would be most fetching in many urban 
places. 

Try to have a really beautiful bossy, a Holstein or 
a Jersey beauty, say, for the purpose, and have her 
groomed to the point of perfection. In small halls, 
where space would be lacking for this distinctive 
feature, have a space with sanded floor for The Dairy, 
or select linoleum to cover it in a design which imi- 
tates stone flagging. Have a wooden bench with a 
row of shining tin pails, a churn in operation, and 
other stages of buttermaking. In city limits butter 
so made could be sold at a high rate per pound, the 
novelty of seeing it made unquestionably pure before 
one's eyes insuring a sale. 

In the other corner have The Well and The Old 
Oaken Bucket. This bucket can be utilized as a 



For Church and Charity 165 

lemonade well, where lemonade is sold at five cents 
the tin cupful, for glasses would be out of place at a 
country well. But another idea that can also be 
adopted for this feature is to have the well fitted out 
with a mechanical pulley so that when a nickel is 
dropped in one bucket, the other brings up a present 
for the visitor. In fact, an unusual sort of grab bag. 

Next let there be a Grape Arbor, using either the 
natural vines arranged with the stems in water to 
keep them fresh, or, better still (especially where the 
bazaar is of several days' duration), get the vines and 
leaves made of crepe paper. Among the leaves hang 
the little bunches of candy grapes which any depart- 
ment store can supply. Under the arch sell baskets 
of grapes of all kinds, concords, catawbas, delawares, 
grape jelly and grape- juice at five cents a glass. 

Next arrange a Truck Patch where cabbages, car- 
rots, turnips, and other vegetables, real or of tissue- 
paper, are found growing in orderly rows in soft sand. 
Any one paying five or ten cents (according to the 
value of the articles buried) can pluck the vegetable 
and retain the gift attached to the root. 

Many similar features can be thought out. The 
only limitations are those imposed by the size of the 
hall or room in which the sale is held. There might 
be a corner of the old apple orchard where big rosy 
apples of papier-mache, very sweet at core, are sold 
at twenty-five cents each. And here also a cider 



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press might be genuinely in action with sweet fresh 
cider at five cents a glass. 

It would be delightful, too, to have the Attic. In 
certain localities this might be devoted to antique 
pieces and to others not actually antiques of value, but 
quaint, picturesque, or curious. Old chairs, spoons, 
and silver could be supplemented by old books, news- 
papers, old bonnets, cloaks, coverlets, rag rugs, prints, 
pewter, and other mementos of the past. 

Other committees where the demand for antiques 
would be small could omit this and use the idea of the 
rummage sale for the attic. In the attic, too, there 
should be some huge cobwebs of twine with big spiders 
caught in them. In each spider is a gift. Provide 
toy brooms and let each child who pays ten cents take 
a broom and sweep down a spider for himself. 

Last of all comes the country supper, which can be 
either table d'hote or a la carte. Fifty cents a head 
might well be charged for a course supper consisting 
of chicken and other rural good things. On the other 
hand, some committees with ample space and a large 
corps of assistants may decide upon a lengthy bill of 
fare where dainties are ordered at so much a portion. 
In this case serve fried chicken and waffles, baked 
apples, apple dumplings, doughnuts, cider, pie, apple 
'^sass," corn muffins, and even hasty pudding with 
maple syrup. 



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YE OLDE TYME FAIR 

An old time fair was a drawing feature in one lo- 
cality where practically everything else seemed to 
have been tried. There was a country store, an ani- 
mal exhibit, an art gallery, a singin' skule, a baby show, 
and a gold mine. A series of old-fashioned dances 
followed the sale, and a New England kitchen where 
an old-fashioned supper was served rounded out the 
list of attractions. 



AN INDUSTRIAL FAIR 
For a bazaar, whether one on a modest scale with 
but a dozen or so of booths or a large function filling 
a hall, nothing could be more effective and newer than 
the idea of the trades, with their characteristic imi- 
form, actual or fanciful. 

Each stall should represent a trade, metier, or pro- 
fession, and should be in charge of from two to six 
"artisans" — in some instances boys taking the place 
of girls as salesmen. 

The Masons' Stall should be covered with the wall- 
paper which suggests stones, or with gray wrapping- 
paper on which the suggestion of masonry is conveyed 
by means of shading in water color. Let them sell 
candy in boxes specially colored to suggest bricks. 
Or in boxes wrapped in brick-red paper, if this is easier 



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to contrive. The square hat of white paper and the 
little apron are distinctive features of this costume. 

The Cooks' or Caterers' Booth should be in charge 
of chefs of either sex, attired in white with white caps 
in the familiar tam-o'-shanter pattern. What is sold 
here would depend upon the season. For cold weather, 
crackers and hot soup at ten cents a bowl would be 
a good choice. In warm weather ices and cakes 
would probably be stock in trade. Where the space 
admits of it and the force is large, there could be a 
little quick lunch restaurant at this stall. 

For the Grocers, have a real little grocery store and 
hang up a long list of bargain-day specials and con- 
tributions to add to the fun. 

Have the Bakers' Booth, of course, devoted to 
bread, rolls, and cakes, — ^particularly the last named, 
while the Confectioners' Stall is the appropriate place 
for many varieties of sweets. 

The Laundresses might wear print frocks and big 
white aprons, and should sell laundry supplies. Among 
the wares are wash-tubs and washing machines, 
clothespins, clothesline, wringers, blueing, ironing 
wax, clothespin bags, iron-holders, and, of course, sad 
irons. 

The Sailors, represented by either young boys or 
girls in middy suits, should have a background of mus- 
lin cut and stretched to suggest sails, while the en- 
closure is marked off by ^^ hawsers" swung from mast 



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tops decorated with flags and pennants. The wares 
here are curios relating to different countries and rang- 
ing from an Indian basket to a Turkish rug. 

Nursemaids, very coquettish in cap and apron, 
could sell baby dolls in cradles and coaches, and all 
the small belongings of infant doUdom. 

Waitresses could serve the patrons of the fair with 
afternoon tea in the Tea Room. Plan to have nice 
sandwiches and dainty cakes on tap with the tea. 

Then, too, all kinds of mirthful surprises might be 
introduced to amuse the visiting patrons and to draw 
a crowd. For instance, there might be a group of 
white wing street-cleaners, who sell brooms and 
brushes, mops, dustpans, and so on and who take 
chances on a vacuum cleaner. 

Have a Hokey Pokey Man, who sells really good 
cream in little cones or paper cornucopias and whose 
presence or rather approach is announced by the 
tinkling of a little bell. 

The Architects could sell doll houses, and the pop- 
ular playhouses made Uke painted screens might 
appropriately be added to their wares. 

The Gardeners could sell plants, garden imple- 
ments, and apparatus for outdoor games. 

Have a Beauty Parlor, where all kinds of toilet 
preparations, as well as mirrors, brushes, and combs, 
are sold. Let the fair '^ manicurists" read palms at 
little tables arranged like those of a beauty parlor. 



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FOR PICTURESQUE EFFECTS TRY AN ARMY 

FAIR 

For at least six weeks in the early Fall come days 
as perfect as those in June, of which the poet sings. 
Affairs arranged out of doors become a real pleasure 
at this season, and those who have money to raise for 
charitable enterprises of any sort may well take ad- 
vantage of the friendly aspect of Nature. For 
instance, these six to eight weeks are ideal for outdoor 
fairs. 

Nothing could be prettier for a setting on the green 
than an Army Fair with its tents, its flags and aides 
in brilliant costume. 

The tents take the place of stalls, or rather, they 
act as covering for the latter and in front of each tent 
is a flag-shaped placard which gives in military par- 
lance the name of the stall. Above each tent floats 
Old Glory, adding to the effectiveness of the scene. 

The articles sold are appropriate to the name found 
at the door. Thus in that named Commissariat all 
kinds of food supplies are sold. The refreshment 
tent is the Mess Room, and temperance drinks are 
sold in The Canteen. In the hospital tent, which is 
decorated with red crosses, all kinds of toilet supplies 
and home remedies from sticking plaster to witch 
hazel, hot water bags and other handy articles for the 
sickroom are found there. The aides must be dressed 



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as nurses. The men who take part may be in khaki, 
cut military wise. 

Have sentinels who patrol here and there, and for 
the child visitors have small boys in imitation of 
soldierly costume who sell flags at a few cents apiece, 
stationed at intervals over the grounds. 



A NAVY FAIR 

Instead of an army fair some committees may pre- 
fer to arrange one on the naval plan. Here the open- 
air stalls would have to be protected by canvas sails 
while naval ensigns are mingled with the stars and 
stripes from the mastheads. 

The girls who assist in selling wear sailor suits; all 
those worn in any booth being uniform, and the young 
men appear as blue jackets. Here as in the Military 
Fair, martial music is played by the band. 

In addition to the booths suggested by the names 
of ships, officers, etc., as Purser, Captain, etc., there 
should be one where novelties from abroad are sold. 
This is called The Sailors' Souvenir Table, and can 
be made very diverse and attractive by obtaining for 
sale trifles from great European cities, Paris, Berlin, 
London, Dublin, and so forth. 

Everything which has the slightest element of the 
marine in its composition, from a sailor collar or a 
copy of Pinafore to long distance glasses, driftwood 



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for winter fires or tales of the sea, is appropriate 
for a naval fair. 

Some committees may prefer to combine the two 
ideas as An Army and Navy Fair, This has been 
very successfully done. 



A THACKERAY BAZAAR 

The costumes are the charming ones of the Georgian 
period and the characters are so diverse, if all the 
books are carefully reviewed, that their adaptation 
to the needs of the stalls could hardly fail to be witty 
and successful. 

It would be amusing to have flowers grouped to rep- 
resent a book title (which in a way might represent 
the decoration of a book cover) and the title used 
"Vanity Fair," by William M. Thackeray. 

Let some of the booths represent heavy gilt frames, 
behind which the matrons and maidens in delight- 
fully old-timey costume dispense the wares, and let 
each fair aide sell something which is appropriate to 
her name or to her part in the tale. 

Let the soft, blushing Amelia Sedley with her big 
bonnet and curls, sell cakes and bonbons. 

Becky Sharp sells all kinds of pickles, catsups and 
tart or sharp relishes. Or she could have charge of 
another grade of sharp things; that is, knives, scissors, 
nails, pins, needles, ornamental swords. 



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Laura Bell, who became Mrs. Pendennis, being a 
country girl, wears a simple country frock and big 
straw garden hat. Her wares are old-fashioned flow- 
ers, growing, or in nosegays. All kinds of gardening 
implements, bulbs for fall planting, watering pots, 
garden scissors are included. 

Kindly old Colonel Newcome vends goods from 
the East Indies, which may include rugs, draperies, 
shawls, inlaid boxes and heavy Eastern jewelry or 
perfumes. 

Let the wares of Blanche Amory, the Sylphide, be 
as romantic as the young lady herself in the book. 
She might offer books of verse, candy hearts on 
strings, dainty stationery, directions for getting thin 
for the stout, and any particularly ^^ soulful" books 
or pictures that can be gathered in. 

Booth of Fair Women 

Over the booth of Fair Women have Beatrix Es- 
mond preside with, as stock in trade, all kinds of 
toilet beautifiers. 

There are Indian goods and Colonial antiques 
where Madam Rachel Warrington holds sway and 
Lady Castlewood, the gentle chatelaine of Henry 
Esmond's boyhood days, should sell the supplies of 
the linen stall or for household and kitchen labor. 

Let Pendennis read character from handwriting. 



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A VISIT TO DONNYBROOK FAIR FOR MARCH 

17TH 

A capital way to raise money on Patrick's Day in 
the Evening is to arrange Donnybrook Fair with all 
kinds of comic catch-penny schemes to beguile the 
^'change." 

Have the invitations printed in Hibernian dialect, 
for which the following will serve as a model. 

Dear (Insert name) : 

It's hopin' I am you'll not be too busy to visit Donnybrook 
Fair at this addriss on the avenin' of March 17. The fair will 
be held from eight-thirty to eleven-thirty. You'll lose a few 
nickels belike, but they'll go to a good cause — furnishing our 
new library with books. Here's thrustin' to see ye prisint and 
so God save ye kindly from your friend 

(Insert Name) 

The more space that can be given up to Donny- 
brook, the merrier. The greater the space, the more 
can be attempted in the way of decorations. Re- 
move the carpets and sprinkle sand to form walks, 
laying a broad stretch of natural sod or green baize 
or green paper muslin along the walls. On the "sod" 
skirting the walls are arranged a variety of little stalls 
and booths. Pine tables with sun umbrellas over 
them are all that is required for these booths, but the 
fair aides must be in costume. 

Let the "market women" dress with full skirts, big 



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checked or white aprons, small shawls or shoulder 
capes, and kerchiefs or queer little black bonnets. 

At each stall have some odd little souvenir or ed- 
ible to sell. 

In addition to the market women, for a large affair^ 
have a funny lively peddler with a large satchel of 
comic wares which he rehearses in ^^ brogue" and a 
fiddler who plays jigs at intervals. 

One of the stalls could have nosegays of flowers and 
pots of growing shamrock, etc. At one stall sell little 
gingerbread men and glasses of milk. 

For refreshment have Irish stew and mashed 
praties, a salad, served with ^Hay" and sandwiches 
rolled and tied with green ribbon. For dessert ice- 
cream in shamrock shaped cases (to be ordered from 
any favor store or counter), and cakes iced in pis- 
tachio or decorated with strips of angelica. 



A MAYPOLE FAIR 

An extremely picturesque and novel idea for a 
bazaar held in the month of flowers is a Maypole Sale. 
Such a sale was arranged one season, and the idea 
proved worth wider circulation in the interest of 
all entertainment committees. 

The hall was charmingly decorated, the ceiling 
being covered with paper wistaria twined in and out 
of a lattice which last descended part way upon the 



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wall of the room like a frieze, giving the little hall the 
effect of a floral bower. Lower down the walls were 
banked with flowering branches of apple trees. 

Directly in the center of the room was erected a 
Maypole painted green, from which radiated a 
dozen or more colored ribbons. These ribbons were 
stretched taut reaching almost to the walls and then 
they were caught up, leaving just enough space for 
a path around. The streamers were caught up with 
large bows of ribbon in the same color, shorter posts 
also green and arranged equidistant from the May- 
pole, being arranged to support them. 

To each ribbon was attached some certain class of 
merchandise, with the price of the article ticketed 
thereon in every case for ready reference. Two girls 
attired in dimity of a shade which matched that of the 
ribbon they tended were in charge of the sales. One 
ribbon was hung with handkerchiefs, another with 
small kitchen utensils, another with pretty May 
baskets filled with flowers, another with boxes of 
candy wrapped in pale pink and blue and so forth. 

Over and above the ribbons of the maypole there 
were several extras. Articles too wieldy to swing 
from the ribbons were sold from clothes baskets 
arranged along the wall, and here also those who 
wished to purchase the tokens of the season found a 
charmingly decorated flower booth. 

Of course, there was a fortune teller's booth, with 



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this inscription above the door, and presided over by a 
witch : 

" Old Mother May Reads Flowery Fortunes And Showery 
Futures For Ten Cents The Hand." 

In another room a delicious supper was offered at 
reasonable rates. Small tables were used and each 
was trimmed with a different kind of flower. Girls 
costumed as eighteenth century milkmaids waited 
on the pretty tables. 

A LITTLE GEM SALE 

When such a point is reached in money-making 
entertainments that it seems as if human invention 
could go no further, fall back upon A Little Gem Sale 
or Jewel Fair. All the booths, though without much 
particularization, are built to suggest the faceted sides 
of a jewel and each stall is devoted to some familiar 
and favorite gem in name and color, though not in 
wares. 

Crepe paper in many lovely shades and colors is 
now available everywhere, and it is this fact which 
makes the jewel idea a universally good one, for 
thanks to the paper, trimming the booths becomes an 
easy matter, both in out of town places and in large 
towns and cities. The fair aides who serve the cause 
of good works in this instance should dress in the 
color of the gem whose booth they tend. 



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The Emerald Booth should be a pale and pretty 
green. Supplement the green tissue paper, if you 
can, with ferns or plants and cover the counter with 
velvety moss. The wares for this booth are potted 
plants and green pottery intended for jardinieres and 
flower holders. The fair aides should be blondes. 
It would be charming to have them in quaint green 
cotton frocks and poke bonnets designed from the 
pictures of Kate Greenaway. 

For the Garnet Booth use deep, warm red crSpe 
paper and red roses or carnations. Select brunettes, 
to whom red is becoming, for the attendants. One 
suggestion for the wares would be to make this the 
book counter, and to have as many red bound books 
as possible among the stock. Collect the other books 
under a joking placard which reads: ^^ These books 
ought to be re (a) d." 

The Diamond Stall is, of course, all white. It 
might be devoted to The Bride, and might have a 
canopy of tulle arranged like a wedding veil. Or 
white crepe paper could be used. The attendants 
are attired like bridesmaids, and orange blossoms, 
real or of paper, are the chosen flower. Here sell 
white gloves and stockings, engagement gifts, and 
lovers' tokens of various kinds. 

The delicate blue of the Turquoise might well mark 
baby's domain, the flowers used being artificial gar- 
lands of forget-me-nots, which sell at ten cents a 



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pretty garland. Sell bassinets, caps, bibs, socks, 
rattles, bath toys, toilet articles, baby books of linen, 
and everything else which can be gathered that re- 
lates to his small but potent Highness. Let the at- 
tendants dress as coquettish nursemaids. 

Another white booth, the Pearl, should designate 
where the things appertaining to young girls are sold. 
If a flower is used, lilies-of-the-valley would be charm- 
ing. Have the maidens at the stall costumed in 
white, of course, but in the style of the heroines of 
^^Little Women." 

Let the Tourmaline represent the nautical booth, 
arranging your green paper in long waves with slightly 
fringed edges to suggest the sea, and decorate with 
tiny toy boats (a supply of which could be kept for 
sale) with sponges (also on sale), shells, seaweed, etc. 
The aides could wear middy suits and jaunty naval 
caps, and either young girls or growing laddies might 
be chosen for the part. Baskets of shells, crabbing 
nets, fishing tackle, sand toys in season, deep sea 
romances, salt-water taffy, tortoise-shell combs and 
mirrors, abalone shell ornaments, or coral beads are 
among the many things available for a deep-sea booth. 

Let the Opal or the Rock Crystal stall be devoted 
to glass of many kinds, and have a gorgeous Topaz 
Stall all in yellow, attended by boys dressed as China- 
men who sell Chinese wares. Among these are 
cushions in which the color of the Yellow Kingdom 



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predominates, screens, Chinese house-gowns for 
women, vases, bowls, yellow china and porcelain, 
and Oriental perfumes. 

In fruit season another idea for the Topaz Booth 
would be to trim it with yellow crepe paper and corn 
shucks and to pile it high with yellow fruit and garden 
produce. Oranges, lemons, pumpkins, squash, and 
many other fall products would contribute to the 
color scheme. The aides could attire as farmers and 
country maidens for a city bazaar, and in the country 
it would be attractive to have them attired as Minne- 
haha. 

Devote the charming Amethyst Booth to the needs 
and little comforts of the elderly. Shawls, rugs, wraps, 
slippers, footstools, and foot muffs, magnifying glasses, 
books in large type, and similar odds and ends, and 
choice brands of tea. 

Many other jewels are available where the sale 
must be on a generous scale. With a little ingenuity 
any entertainment committee will be able to juggle 
the idea so as to find the required number of stalls 
and to have appropriate wares in each. 



A CITY CHURCH MIGHT GIVE A FAIR 
FOUNDED ON THE POPULAR OPERAS 
The story of the operas could be used for a bazaar 
in a fanciful and mirthful way. Blonde Marguerite 



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in such case would have charge of the jewelry, while 
the booth might be decorated with little Mephistos 
in black and red. 

Juliet, having had experience in potions, presides 
over household remedies and other bottled goods of 
different sorts. 

The Flower Maidens from Parsifal wear costumes 
representing flowers and vend flowers, plants, and 
bulbs at the flower booth. 

Among the Japanese goods, with a background of 
Oriental screens and fans, let guests find Madame 
Butterfly, while Martha, in her peasant disguise, 
offers dairy products and delicacies. 

There is a Spanish booth in Spanish colors, where 
Carmen is detailed to sell fans, lace head-coverings, 
books of travel in Spain, pictured scenes of Old Mad- 
rid, and fancy work in Spanish colorings. 

Eva, from Die Meistersinger, because of her con- 
nection with prize songs, could preside over sheet 
music, particularly new vocal music, while the Gipsy 
mother of II Trovatore reads palms or tells fortunes 
in some other approved fashion, as by crystal gazing. 

It would be an attraction to have phonographs re- 
producing the voices of famous singers, to be enjoyed 
by all patrons who have paid an entrance fee. 

Shaksperean characters may be used in the same 
way for a fair announced as a Shaksperean Sale. 
Here Desdemona would sell (sofa) pillows and hand- 



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kerchiefs; Ophelia, flowers, particularly old-fashioned 
ones; Hamlet, little skulls and copies of his own life. 
The Merry Wives of Windsor have charge of the re- 
freshments; the heroine of The Tempest naturally 
appears surrounded with sea ornaments, marine views, 
long distance glasses, etc. 

Portia's charge is college supplies and college nov- 
elties of every kind, while King Lear and Cordelia 
sell storm shoes, mackintoshes, and umbrellas. 

Lady Macbeth should have in stock all kinds of 
spot-removing liquids and other cleansers, because 
of her experience in spots difficult to remove. 



BAZAAR OF HEROINES 

A most successful bazaar held in a New England 
town was full of charming scenic effects, alluring many 
visitors who came to see and stayed to buy. In fact, 
a five-cent admission charge was made without ap- 
parently reducing the number of visitors. Each 
stall was in charge of some heroine of poetry or ro- 
mance who vended appropriate wares. The stalls, 
too, were decorated to form a fitting background for 
the characters represented. Thus Elaine ^ the ^^Lily 
Maid of Astolat, " presided over the snowy wares of 
the linen booth. She wore a lovely moyen-age gown, 
while a wall-paper with the design of masonry con- 
verted her booth into an ancient tower. The flower- 



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stall was in charge of the May Queen (from Tennyson). 
Green baize and branches of trees converted her booth 
into a rolling countryside, and she herself wore an 
Enghsh rural costume of the eighteenth century. 
Cleopatra, with a background of Egyptian pillars and 
(crepe paper) lotus, sold perfumes, Eastern sweet- 
meats, embroidered cushions and other Oriental 
goods. Maid Marian, all in Lincoln green, was in 
charge of open-air games and athletic wares. Lady 
Macbeth (because of the indelible stain of which she 
complained) was given the booth devoted to cleansers, 
scourers and scrubbers of every sort, including prepa- 
rations for removing ink and other annoying spots. 
In the bridal booth, visitors were served by that im- 
mortal bride — Juliet, 



A BAZAAR OF TREES OR SYLVAN FESTIVAL 

A charming plan for an outdoor fete or an indoor 
fair or bazaar is to have each booth represent some 
tree and to have appropriate wares sold thereat. Out 
of doors little booths can be built around the real 
growths, which can, however, for the occasion bear 
names and fruit not altogether botanical. Here are 
the trees and the wares sold. 

The Palm Tree — Gipsy palmist. 

The Orange Tree — Crepe paper oranges with fortunes or 
surprises. 



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The Ash Tree — Smokers' supplies. 

The Lemon Tree — ^Lemonade, lemon jumbles, etc. 

The Date Tree — Calendars, diaries, memo books, and cards. 

The Pine Tree — Christmas tree with toys for children. 

The Beech Tree — Toy buckets and shovels with sand, shells, 
and matched clam-shells with souvenirs inside. 

The Pear Tree (pair) — Gifts and souvenirs for lovers. 

The Pop (u) lar Tree — ^A voting contest for the most popular 
girl. 

The Chestnut Tree — Books of jokes. Roast chestnuts, etc. 

The Rose Tree — Bouquets of flowers and single ones for 
boutonnieres. 

The Plane Tree — Mirrors, beauty creams, and beautifiers of 
any kind. 

A NOVEL TURKEY SALE 

One feature of a fair held just before Thanksgiving 
was a Turkey Sale, which, owing to the originality 
of the idea and the very popular priced turkeys, made 
a great hit financially and otherwise. 

One entire booth was given up to the fowls, which 
were represented in every phase of turkey existence 
— from strutting the barnyard in full feather to roasted 
upon a platter. Over the booth swung a placard 

reading: 

Thanksgiving Turkeys 

25 Cents Each 

Purchaser of The Lucky Turkey Wins a Thanksgiving Dinner. 

Needless to say the twenty-five cent fowls were of 
pasteboard and were filled with candy. In one of 



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them, known only to the committee until after the 
fair closed, was a number which called for a real 
Thanksgiving turkey from a neighborhood poulterer. 
This was contributed by the dealer, who was himself 
interested in the good work, but where it is not possible 
to interest a member of the committee some arrange- 
ment can be made by which the merchant providing 
the turkey will receive advertisement in the programs 
and by placards in return for his contribution. 

The little turkeys sold almost as rapidly as they 
could be wrapped up. Bought at wholesale, they 
cost but five cents apiece. The candy used in each, 
being of excellent quality, cost ten cents, so there was 
a clear profit on each bird of ten cents, while, con- 
trary to the usual rule, the purchaser received a fair 
return for his money. 

The lucky number was thrown upon a lantern 
screen toward the close of the fair after all turkeys 
were sold. 

A SALE OF TRIMMED HATS 

In large towns and cities a Sale of Hats trimmed by 
the prominent and popular girls has been found to 
insure substantial sums. Work upon the millinery 
should begin at least a month in advance, and the 
headgear should be designed for the change of seasons 
— either for spring or fall. Plan to have the hats sell 
at from five dollars to fifteen or twenty-five dollars. 



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but with plenty at the lowest figure. Have smart 
boxes in which to pack them and display them well. 
Take orders for trimmed hats in advance. No 
special invitations need be issued, but generous dis- 
tribution of the news in advance will be necessary. 



A PINCUSHION SALE 

This is a good way to raise money, either indoors or 
out. Each person interested contributes one or more 
pincushions, and is supposed either to purchase a 
cushion or to bring friends who will do so. Prizes 
could be offered for the most beautiful cushion and 
the one of most useful design. Tea and wafers could 
be passed during the sale. 

Or a fifteen-cent refreshment, consisting of sand- 
wiches, cocoa, salad, and olives, could be offered to 
guests. Be in readiness for those patrons who arrive 
with an appetite. 



AN INTRODUCTION SALE 
A progressive ways-and-means committee in Phila- 
delphia found it possible to reduce the initial outlay 
of their bazaar to a minimum by having the sale built 
up on novelties and innovations. This may sound 
rather too good to be true, until the plan is made clear. 
They went about it in this way: By diligent inquiry 



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at groceries and hardware shops, booksellers', apothe- 
caries/ confectioners/ etc., as well as by consulting 
the advertisements in magazines, the ladies obtained 
a list of firms who were introducing some special new 
thing. These novelties varied all the way from a new 
book or a new perfume to a new device for shorten- 
ing kitchen work ; from breakfast-foods to hair curlers, 
parlor games, and topical songs. Letters were sent 
to the different manufacturers offering to give gener- 
ous advertisement and, if necessary, demonstration 
at the bazaar in return for a free consignment of goods 
to be sold for the charitable object under considera- 
tion. Fully two-thirds of the merchants appealed to 
responded with consignments large or small. Posters 
and other advertisement matter were almost in- 
variably supplied at the same time. The net profits 
were larger than those of many other functions on 
which infinitely more time and money had been ex- 
pended. 

A PENNY SALE 
For this simple fair two or three cents admission is 
charged. Everything sold is purchased in pennies, and 
no item exceeds five cents. Candies, dolls, toys, pin- 
cushions, neck bows, kitchen articles, etc., are the 
wares, but the more novelties the better. In fact, 
novelties are almost indispensable to a sale of the kind. 



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AN AUTUMN FLOWER SALE 

A delightful plan for an outdoor fair in autumn of 
which a description was given me was an Autumn 
Flower Sale. Each booth was decorated with some 
species of fall blossoms, mainly, of course, asters and 
chrysanthemums, both of the old-fashioned sort and 
of the newer hothouse beauties. 

Each booth was confined to one or two colors, and 
the articles agreed with the color scheme laid down 
in the flowers. 

Thus for the linen counter white flowers only were 
used, while on another stall the articles range from 
palest lilac and violet to deep purple. 

Sold at the floral booth were asters and chrysanthe- 
mums, goldenrod, and gorgeous boughs of autumn 
leaves. 

HOW YOUNG GIRLS UNAIDED CAN GIVE A 

FAIR 

The fairs and bazaars arranged by quite young girls 
without adult help are frequently very successful if 
kept small and dainty. 

This is a form of charity which the home girl alone 
has time for, being out of the question for the " sufferin' 
sisters" bound down to ^^ office hours." 

One extremely dainty and effective plan for such a 
fair is a white sale, which is heralded by announce- 



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ments cut out in the form of sailing vessels with the 
name and date on the spreading canvas. 

The room trimmed with garlands of white paper and 
feathery white chrysanthemums or other blooms can 
be made exquisite. 

White goods only are sold, friends who are adept 
at making or embroidering fine lingerie, blouses, 
mouchoirs, and the like being petitioned well in ad- 
vance for contributions. 

There should be a bridal booth all in white, a 
^^ Little Blouse Shop/' devoted to pretty waists; ^^At 
the Sign of the Handkerchief;" a refreshment table 
all in white with pale-colored goodies, and other ex- 
tensions of the same pretty idea. 



MAKING MONEY WITH THE AID OF JACK 

FROST 

Something really new in the way of an idea for a 
winter bazaar would be to dedicate it to Jack Frost. 

Imagine a large room or hall all in shimmering 
white and silver with a background of pine trees eked 
out possibly by scenery from amateur theatricals rep- 
resenting winter out-of-doors. The floor is covered 
with muslin or is painted white and scattered with 
leaves and cones. Against the green background are 
placed the booths on which cotton batting and tinsel 
are heaped high, so that big snowdrifts are suggested. 



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In the center of the room (if this is a good place for 
it, according to the shape of the floor) is a giant snow- 
pile with white wrapped bundles under it to be dis- 
tributed to those paying five cents. It may be better 
to have white tapes tied to all bundles, with numbers 
on the ends which hang out, and to sell the numbers 
on cards that are afterwards matched with those on 
the bundles. It is a satisfactory way to handle the 
idea in the case of a large crowd. 

When the pine trees are used as a background, toys 
and other simple wares to retail at five cents or ten 
cents each can be wrapped in white tissue paper and 
attached to the boughs. Girls dressed in white may 
attend upon these novel booths. 

Try to have main stalls built like shingle roof cot- 
tages upon which the snow can be piled up. Many 
stalls, such as the one devoted to the bride, will be 
white as to wares in any case, and by using white 
paper boxes or wrappings, much can be done to make 
the goods everywhere in the desired snowy tint. The 
fair aides can wear white and they may be assisted 
by boys costumed as Jack Frost. 



Other Original Features 
The person who attends the Snowpile and delivers 
the prizes may be costumed as a snow shoveler. The 
Sleighbells Contest, too, makes a good side issue for 



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the bazaar, and especially so with the attendant cos- 
tumed as The Snow King, or as Jack Frost. If the 
king appears, have him in flowing white robes trimmed 
with regal ermine, for which, by the way, raw cot- 
ton with large dots of black paint substitutes finely. 

A booth for tinware and one for aluminum will fall 
in attractively with the white and silver scheme of a 
Jack Frost spectacle, and another stall may be de- 
voted to necessities of icy suggestion. Sleds, skates, 
snow-shoes, snowmen, and snowball favors, knitted 
comforters, mittens, warm woolen caps will be ap- 
propriate, as also snow scenes framed, copies of Beauti- 
ful Snow, Snow Bound, The Snow Queen, etc. The 
stall for the aged may have white shawls and head 
wraps, and one booth devoted to white lace and em- 
broidery has a special appeal for the woman who sews. 

Amateur Theatricals 

Another way in which the suggestion of the frost 
king or the sprite Jack Frost can be utilized is in 
amateur theatricals or an entertainment for a school. 
New ideas are constantly wanted for occasions of this 
kind, and the following plan may suggest others. 

Advertise the affair as a Trip to Snowland or use 
some other catchy title. The stage is all in shimmer- 
ing whiteness, offset by the scintillations of diamond 
powder and silver tinsel. Snow scenes or snow pictures 
can be made very interesting against this background 



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and are a new form of the ever-popular tableaux for 
either juvenile or grown actors. For instance, the 
following, which shows how diversified the idea may 
be: 

The Snow Queen, from Hans Andersen. 

Interior of an Eskimo Cabin. 

^'When Icicles Hang From The Wall" (a scene in 
the time of Shakspere). 

The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte). 

Moving pictures. 

When the tableaux are over some one costumed as 
an Arctic explorer appears and gives a little talk on 
the Arctic regions — the permanent home of Jack 
Frost — the different Arctic beasts, the forming of 
glaciers, the wonders of the ice-bound season. This 
should be illustrated either with moving pictures or 
lantern slides. 

Follow with a lighter number — a ballet in which 
boys, costumed as Jack Frosts, go through pretty 
evolutions with young girls or little maids costumed as 
Snow Queens. The boys may have glistening wands 
for their gesticulations and the girls pouches of con- 
fetti. 

The Fairies 
Or, instead of the foregoing, have a ballet of snow 
fairies, who are very little folk in white costumes, with 
white wings upon their shoulders. They enter singing 



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a specially composed snow song set to some familiar 
air. Each child has a basket of confetti, which it 
scatters in going through the evolutions of the drill. 

At one end of the stage have a local acrobat attired 
as a snowman. When the drill is over the snowman 
comes to life, tosses away his cap, and indulges in all 
the acrobatic feats he can muster for the occasion. 

A chorus of little boys may now be ushered upon 
the scene singing and drilling as the girls have done. 
When the drill is over, the boys and the snowman pelt 
each other with snowballs, after which all actors join 
in a general ballet illustrative of the annual coming 
of the snow. 

These, of course, are merely hints to show the possi- 
bilities of an idea on short notice. Any wide-awake 
committee on entertainment can develop the ones 
given in original ways to suit the class which will take 
part, or can originate others along the same general 
plan. 

Child dancers and soloists whose talents may be 
woven into the program as special features are found 
in many neighborhoods. 

Souvenirs of snowy suggestion may be given to all 
who pay the entrance fee — snowballs filled with candy, 
snowmen, and white cotton snowbirds make cunning 
and very inexpensive souvenirs for a snowy occasion 
of the kind. 



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THE BOOTH OF ^^ SPOTLESS TOWN" 
One exceptionally attractive booth is called Spot- 
less Town, and is modeled from pictures of that cele- 
brated abode of cleanliness. The aides' costumes 
should also be copied from the pictures. Sell all kinds 
of brooms, brushes, and dust-cloths, wash-cloths, pails, 
buckets, mops, dish-mops, soaps, ammonia, washing 
powders, chamois for window-cleaning, feather 
dusters, carpet-sweepers, and a vacuum cleaner. The 
latter may be sold by ^^ chances." 

NOAH'S ARK BOOTH FOR A FAIR 

At a successful fair given on a large scale in New 
York city a ^Mrawing card" was the Noah's Ark 
Booth, built in the shape of the familiar and ever fasci- 
nating toy. The toy animals for sale at the booth 
were arranged in pairs for — 

The animals went in two by two, 
The elephant and the kangaroo. 

Another popular line of wares was the supply of 
tiny Noah's arks which were sold there to the number 
of several thousand. 

Chances were taken on a teddy bear whose electrified 
eyes lighted up in an uncanny fashion when a button 
was pressed. 



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A SEASHORE BAZAAR 

Other good names for this could be the Bazaar on 
the Beach, a Neptune Fair, or a Marine Fair. 

Green relieved with white, the colors suggested by 
the proximity of the waves, is also a deliciously re- 
freshing and restful combination for warm weather. 
Use green and white cheese-cloth for the draperies 
and marine water-color views and photographs for 
additional decorations. Garlands of seaweed and 
shells are easy to make and are most effective. 

The merchandise that can be made in one way or 
another to fit the idea embraces a very wide class. 
The following is a partial list: Shell fancy goods. 
Fancy articles in green and white. Rare specimens 
of seaweeds or shells for purchasers who are collectors. 
Boxes decorated with seaweeds. Toy boats and sailor 
dolls for the children. All the paraphernalia used 
in bathing — shoes, caps, hats, bandanas, stockings, 
with even a few suits for improvident arrivals. Beach 
chairs and umbrellas; light summer fiction; water- 
color marine sketches and photographs in tasteful 
frames. Cook books devoted to the preparation of 
oysters, clams, lobsters and other marine booty. 
Chafing dishes for preparing lobster and clams New- 
burg style. Fish sets in china. Marine glasses for 
watching the ships that pass. Yachting caps and 
boating cushions. 



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For a lottery try something like this : 

Have one portion of the room partitioned off and 
covered with sand to represent the beach. The sand 
should be at least a foot deep and should be boarded 
up to prevent untidy scattering. Secure a large num- 
ber of clam and mussel shells, in fact, any good-sized 
shells available. These must be in pairs. Between 
each two shells place a little prize of some kind, after- 
wards gluing the bivalves together. Bury these 
treasures in the sand, provide small tin spades or 
spoons, and charge five cents ^^a dig.'' The contents 
of each shovelful belongs to the digger. 

The menu can be specially delicious. Fish and 
shellfish in various ways; chowders. Lettuce, cress 
and other sandwiches which go nicely with a fish 
course, coffee and lemonade, the latter under some 
fancy name. Deep Sea Punch, for example. Ice- 
cream in fish shapes and candy in boxes decorated 
with sea moss and shells. 



A BASKET SALE 

Men as well as women are tempted by a nice basket. 
To the housekeeper the temptation is well-nigh irre- 
sistible. For a small bazaar to last one evening, a 
basket sale is worth considering. Every size, kind 
and shape of basket is displayed, suggesting to the 
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market baskets, baskets lined with satin to serve as 
mouchoir or jewel cases, lunch baskets, empty or con- 
taining a cold luncheon for two people. These last 
retail at one dollar. Dress-suit cases in wicker, picnic 
baskets, traveling baskets, laundry baskets and 
clothes hampers. Baskets for fishing excursions. 
There are flower baskets and baskets for animal pets. 
In addition to the supper baskets there should be a 
refreshment booth or table. 



A BOOK AND PICTURE FAIR 

The Book and Picture Fair arranged at a north- 
eastern mountain resort last summer, although a small 
undertaking, was enthusiastically received. The com- 
mittee succeeded in securing several donations of new 
books at publishers' prices to be sold at retail prices for 
the benefit of charity. A couple of authors' autograph 
copies were also successfully solicited and these were 
raffled off at 5 or 10 cents a chance. The pictures 
were photographs of old masters, artistic prints in 
frames and water-color sketches. Hand decorated 
dinner cards and paper dolls were on sale. In addi- 
tion to the printed books there were baby books, 
guests books, debutante books and whist pads with 
dainty bindings, as well as leather-bound books for 
accounts, addresses or recipes. At New Year season 
include diaries and calendars. 



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FOR A CHRISTMASTIDE FAIR 

Tissue paper is one of the best trimmings for an in- 
expensive booth. If the fair is to be held at Christmas 
season, use red and green tissue (which are, of course, 
the Christmas colors) . Trim the booth with wreaths 
of evergreen or holly and put big handfuls of cotton 
batting everywhere to suggest snow. If you don't 
wish a distinctively Christmas feature, use tissue pa- 
per in pompadour pattern (white ground with large 
naturalistic flowers). Have a sign reading '^The 
Parisian Shop" painted to hang above your booth 
and let the girls wear a Du Barry costume, including 
mob cap. 



CLEVER IDEAS FOR FAIRS 

While the conventional booths, with their high- 
priced sales, the raffles and similar features, are un- 
doubtedly the bulwark of a bazaar, the little catch- 
pennies add greatly to the amusement, gratify the 
philanthropic intentions of those who cannot afford 
the higher-priced things, and in the end represent no 
mean portion of the ^'financial results." 

However unchanged the principal stalls remain from 
year to year, the catchpenny scheme must be new 
and attractive, otherwise it will surely fail of its mis- 
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New Grab Bag 

A new grab bag plan that is being tried this year 
with great acclaim on the part of youthful patrons of 
bazaars is called the *^old lady with 100 pockets." 

The old lady is a huge figure (which may be con- 
structed over a large barrel by way of saving time), 
dressed in a hoopskirt or a wide countrified gown and 
bonnet and carrying a big cotton umbrella. 

In her dress are hidden away 100 pockets, in each 
of which a little five or ten cent gift is tucked away. 
On the outside of each pocket is pinned a number, or 
this may be chalked there. The child paying his 
dime or nickel specifies what pocket he wishes the 
contents of, and this is immediately given him. Some 
one must be at hand, of course, to receive the money 
paid to the old lady and to deliver up the contents 
of her numerous pockets. 

The Popular Orange Tree 
Something new in the way of the popular orange 
tree, where the oranges are of crepe paper and contain 
five-cent odds and ends, is to have the arboreal growth 
very tall and let the children climb a tall ladder laid 
against it and clip down the fruit for themselves, which 
to the youngsters is most exciting sport. 

A most delightful candy booth seen at a recent sale 
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general way of the gingerbread house in Haensel and 
Gretel. It was supported by four circular pillars 
which had been wound with strips of red and white 
cloth to suggest the red and white candy of our child- 
hood, with their winding alternated bands of color. 
The roof was of peanut brittle with a festoon of 
pendent popcorn balls alternating red and white. 
The chimneys were of chocolate and the same idea 
was carried out throughout the whole in extremely 
clever detail. 

Conjurers Do Tricks 

Connected with this booth was a little grab-bag 
feature which took immensely with the younger con- 
tingent. It consisted of a huge bag of paper-covered 
caramels. Each child paying five cents was entitled 
to plunge his hand in the bag and draw out as much 
candy as he could hold. As the sweets were paper 
covered, the groping of the little hands was not ob- 
jectionable. Very little folks were permitted to have 
mamma or auntie grab for them. 

A new feature that has been introduced into several 
charity enterprises of late is an afternoon entertain- 
ment for the small patrons of the affair. 

Such entertainments are usually made up of songs, 
stories by a professional entertainer, recitations, and 
magic lantern or conjuring features. 

Souvenirs, however simple, " take " with little folk. 



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A Sample Stall 

Young women interested in warm weather bazaars 
at the seaside or mountains will find a sample stall 
something new and attractive that will bring in many 
bright coins for the good object under consideration. 

For it all the capital housewives likely to be inter- 
ested in the church or charitable enterprise in question 
are approached, and each is besought to contribute 
to the booth a sample of her culinary chef-d'oeuvre. 

With each sample a recipe is begged for. This the 
committee must write out neatly on a card, attaching 
the cards to the various samples. 

Preserves and pickles, cakes, cookies, candy, salads 
and even toilet preparations or good soaps are highly 
desirable. 

Samples may be sold according to their market 
value, with the formulas thrown in as an attraction, 
or each one interested can furnish several small samples 
to sell, with the written directions, at 10 cents to a 
quarter dollar apiece. 

A Delicatessen Stall 

At another stall are baked beans at five cents a 
helping, various kinds of cheese, cold sliced meat 
(roast beef, corned beef, and ham), at five cents a 
portion. 

Salads, sweet and sour, are five cents a helping; 
jam is two cents; stuffed eggs sell at two for a dime. 



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Layer cake, fancy varieties, cost five cents a portion; 
pie, five; doughnuts, two for five. 

Last in order comes the booth for coffee, dispensed 
at five cents a cup with or without cream as desired. 
Milk is also sold here at five cents a glass. 

After the patron has purchased all he wants to eat 
he carries his tray to any vacant place at the table 
and enjoys his meal. This kind of fair is said to be 
very profitable owing to the entire lack of wasteful- 
ness. 



A THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS FAIR 

Some of the latest and most successful fairs are 
being arranged with a comic setting, and for a bazaar 
of this kind the motive of Alice in Wonderland or 
Through the Looking Glass is a splendid choice. The 
scene can be made all that is most extraordinary and 
diverting and will draw a double audience of children 
and elders, delighting both. 

The door through which guests pass into the hall is, 
first of all, made transparent, to suggest the mirror 
through which Alice passed in to her amazing ad- 
ventures. It affords a vista of the astonishing scenery 
and the queer creatures, in advance. The mirror effect 
is managed by having for the door a special outline 
frame (like the frame for an insect-proof door) on 
hinges. This is covered with one or more thicknesses 



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of soft gray gauze to represent the mirror glass. Just 
over the doorway visitors read the words: 

Looking Glass Land 
Just inside the door visitors encounter the Do(o)r- 
mouse who collects entrance tickets assisted therein 
by the Mad Hatter, who holds out for the checks his 
enormous hat. The hat appears exactly as it did in 
John Tenniel's famous illustrations, marked ''In this 
style 10.6." His costume consists of a suit of pro- 
nounced checkerboard pattern and a huge bow tie 
with design of large polka dots. Nothing could be 
madder than the jokes and antics with which the 
Hatter greets the incomers, while for once the Dor- 
mouse quite forgets to go to sleep. 

The Rabbit Hole 
Alice herself is next discovered presiding over a 
booth built to represent a Rabbit Hole. The back- 
ground here is shaped like a perpendicular tunnel 
with the foreground cut away, while the floor is 
strewn with dried leaves, twigs and grass. Alice is 
costumed as a little girl with a short skirted frock and 
a frilly white pinafore. Her yellow hair is brushed 
back from her forehead and is held in place with an 
old-fashioned backcomb. Her stockings are quaintly 
striped in color. She is assisted in the booth (greatly 
to the delight of child visitors) by several boys and 



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girls dressed as little white rabbits. The rabbits 
scurry around in search of the articles asked for, while 
Alice ties bundles and makes change. The stock in 
trade is toys, including inexpensive dolls dressed as 
Alice and a number of funny little white cotton-wool 
rabbits. 

The Pool of Tears 

In the center of the hall is a circular pond with a 
sign post which explains that this is the pool formed 
by Alice's tears after she had eaten the cake and 
grown to such abnormal proportions. In the pool 
float a number of water toys (animals, birds, fish and 
tiny dolls). On paying five cents each child receives 
a fishing rod with which he may operate for five min- 
utes. If in that time he catches a certain number of 
toys he receives a prize. 

The White Queen is found at the linen counter 
where the goods are all appropriate to her color. She 
is assisted by several living chess men attired all in 
white dressed to suggest castles and pawns. 

The Red King, similarly attended, but having his 
attendants in scarlet instead of white, is in charge of 
the library stall. A sign in large letters explains, in 
true looking glass fashion, that "All these books 
should be re (a) d." 

The Red Queen and the immortal Duchess are dis- 
covered further on at a most remarkable sort of cro- 
quet ground which occupies the far end of the hall. 



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It is laid out in checkerboard fashion as in the story 
(Knoleum in large blue and white or green and white 
squares furnishes just the pattern that is needed). 
Each square of the checker board is marked with a 
number. A list of lucky numbers is tacked up nearby. 
Each player on paying a nickel receives a tiny cro- 
quet mallet and ball (parlor or table size). If he can 
succeed in knocking his ball with just enough force 
to have it rest on one of the fortunate numbers he 
receives a ticket for refreshments free of charge. 
This ticket calls for a choice between a sandwich and 
a slice of cake with either hot tea, hot coffee, or cold 
milk or lemonade according as the holder of the ticket 
elects. The player has three throws for a dime. 

The Duchess is marvellously attired in the trailing 
regal robes made famous by the early illustrations of 
the book. Her headdress is an enormous turban 
made of an Indian basket across which a scarf with 
scalloped edges is draped. She wears a false nose 
and a terrible frown which, as well as the elongation 
of her mouth practically from ear to ear, is produced 
by make-up. 

HuMPTY Dumpty's Shop 

Humpty Dumpty, looking very egglike with his 

high collar, Hberal padding in the belt Hne and his 

white waistcoat, is salesman in a real little grocery 

shop with a real glass window where goods are dis- 



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played. The supplies include a quantity of bottles 
of homemade jam placarded with the famous dictum 
of the Alice books ^^ jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, 
but never jam to-day." A basket of eggs is labeled 
^^fivepence for one, twopence for two." 

Smelling salts, cologne and other simple restoratives 
are concealed in miniature bales of clover hay. These 
are sold at ten cents the bale. The notice says, as 
does the white king, ^^ There's nothing like hay 
when you feel faint." Dififerent colors in bebe rib- 
bons should be used on the bales to avoid confusion 
of the contents. 

The Wood Where Memory Is Lost 
Along one of the walls visitors should find "The 
Memoryless Wood" where, it will be recalled, Alice 
found it impossible to remember even her own name. 
A good background for this booth is formed of small 
pine trees. Dogwood and oak crepe paper goods are 
very effective in helping to create the suggestion of a 
forest. To the branches there are attached all kinds 
of first aids to memory. These include telephone 
cards, timetable frames, laundry lists, alarm clocks, 
memorandums of every description. 

Tweedledum and Tweedledee 
The funny little dwelling of the famous twin 
brothers is shaded by a large umbrella. There are 



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two finger posts nearby, one of which reads ^^To 
Tweedledum's House/' and the other, ''To Tweedle- 
dee's House," though both point in the same direc- 
tion and indicate the same residence. The brothers 
are laughable httle fat men, dressed precisely alike 
and wearing (aluminum) skillets for helmets as when 
they are armed for battle. All kinds of household 
appliances and needfuls are on sale at the home of 
Dum and Dee. 

A Remarkable Prison 
A highly novel feature on the grab-bag order is 
Hatta's prison where, it will be remembered, the sole 
fare was the unsatisfying one of oyster shells. The 
walls of this gloomy donjon are covered with wall- 
paper in the design which suggests masonry. Here 
for five cents each guest can obtain a pair of oyster 
shells (glued together) containing a hidden gift. The 
gaol is in charge of the playing card executioners 
whose smock-frocks (made in a way which suggest 
the sandwich man), represent at the back the back 
of the card deck and in front spot cards of the club 
suit. Pendant from their girdles are large axes of 
papier-m^ache. 

The Living Flowers 
In addition to the Mad Tea Party where the most 
substantial of the edibles are on sale a la carte, there 



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is a light refreshment booth where many of the articles 
are surmounted with cards reading, as did the cake 
and the lemonade in the books, EAT ME or DRINK 
ME. There will be sandwiches, of course, these being 
favorites with both the Hatter and the White King 
at least. They are made of ^^ White bread and brown." 
There is of course the tea so frequently mentioned in 
the story, and the plum cake that Alice handed 
around. 

The flower booth is arranged like a small enclosed 
garden, and is tended by the Living Flowers, assisted 
by the Playing Card Gardeners. ^^ Tiger Lily" is 
there in briUiant black and yellow. Larkspur, ^' Roses" 
of various kinds, and so forth. 

It is a pretty plan to have this booth built like an 
open square and painted green with a bower of (paper) 
morning glories or wistaria over head. Around the 
booth runs a gravel walk surrounded by a little box- 
wood hedge. On one side of the booth the (inani- 
mate), flowers are sold. Another of the four counters 
is devoted to potted plants. A third offers bulbs and 
seeds, while a fourth supplies garden tools, plant foods, 
hose, flower seeds, pots and other useful horticultural 
odds and ends. 

The Gardeners who assist the fair Flowers in selling 
are costumed like the spot cards of the spade suit and 
wear smock frocks, which represent the cards, made 
in the same way as described for the gaolers. Their 



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head coverings are little cowls or medieval hoods of 
black material. 

The Mad Tea Party 

The Mad Tea Party where visitors can obtain a 
large variety of good things at moderate prices, is mad 
in appearance only. It is decorated with vegetables 
instead of flowers and little wooden washtubs and 
other inappropriate receptacles are employed for con- 
tainers for the salad, sandwiches, etc. 

Upright in each dish is placed a card on which is 
written the name of some dish which is altogether 
misleading. Thus, in the case of Chicken Salad, the 
card would perhaps read ^'Spaghetti" or "English 
Walnuts,'' while Ham and Tongue Sandwiches would 
be labeled "Succotash" or "Mixed Pickles/' and 
so on through the viands. 

A popular feature of a "Through the Looking Glass 
Fair" is an entertainment for the child visitor. This 
is given in the basement or a room adjoining the hall 
and consists in lantern slides showing the events of 
the two Alice books. While these are given, the story 
is beautifully told by a kindergartner, who explains 
the pictures as they come on. Admission to this 
little entertainment is free and those children who 
have never read the books will come away from it pre- 
pared to enjoy the bazaar in full measure, with others 
who are already familiar with the story. 
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A FLOWER FAIR 
One of the prettiest of this year's suggestions is 
that of a flower fair. Any flower that is widely loved 
may be chosen and from it the entire scheme can be 
developed. In the fall the chrysanthemum would, 
no doubt, be a popular choice. A chrysanthemum 
fair! What a host of enchanting ideas any com- 
mittee of bright women could develop from the mere 
name of it. The booths and dining rooms could be 
decorated with the wonderful autumn blooms. Pot- 
ted chrysanthemums massed together might trans- 
form the corners of the hall into bowers. There might 
be a cut-flower booth, where chrysanthemum bouton- 
nieres and corsage bouquets are offered for sale, and 
a potted plant stall, where the glorious bushes them- 
selves go to the highest bidder. 

An Olden-time Village 
Another picturesque scheme recently discovered is 
to build your bazaar upon the design of a village in 
England during the olden days. Over the door at 
which the guests enter this delightful fair is suspended 
a sign which reads '^Ye Olde English Village." The 
lettering is formed by garlands of green leaves. The 
floors of the hall are strewn with sand to resemble the 
unpaved streets of a country town and each little 
stall resembles a thatched cottage. The girls in 



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charge of these stalls wear costumes of English country 
maidens of the early days. ^^Meat and drink" are 
offered at ^^Ye Blue Boar Inne/' where two delight- 
fully quaint-looking young people enact ^^mine host 
and mine hostess" and look after the comfort of their 
visitors. ^^Ye Olde Bunne House" is the sign under 
which cakes are sold. At ^^Ye Faire Rose Bower" 
cut flowers tempt the purchaser. ^^Ye Sign of Ye 
Spotted Cowe" means an old-time dairy, where de- 
licious cold milk and buttermilk are sold by the glass. 
Of course, there will be a maypole dance by the young 
aides. This can be performed several times each day 
during the progress of the fair and cannot fail to be 
appreciated. Another good touch should be added in 
a ^Mip" — that mysterious feature in which the young- 
sters delight. For this, instead of the ordinary fish 
pond from which the gift packages are drawn by rods, 
an old fashioned pulley well is erected in the centre of 
the room. Each child putting ten cents in one bucket 
of the pulley well receives a much wrapped up ^^ prize" 
bundle by the other. 

An Effect in Yellow 

A Chinese bazaar is always effective. 

The booths in which Chinese, or imitation Chinese, 
work is displayed for sale are hung with paper lan- 
terns. Each booth is shaded by a huge parasol, also 
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At one booth books and photographs relating to 
China are sold. Lacquer-work at another table 
would prove an attraction. A stall showing dainty 
china could not fail to be thought appropriate at 
a China bazaar. Fans, which came originally from 
the land of the Hoang Ho, would make a good sug- 
gestion for the fourth stall. Silks and silk covered 
cushions in Eastern designs might tempt the unwary 
purse string at the fifth booth, and delicious tea, with 
cakes and sweetmeats, might be offered at the sixth. 
An amusing catchpenny contest could be arranged 
by filling a large box with slips of paper, each slip 
being numbered and having written upon it a question 
relating to China, its position, extent, history, people. 
No visitor is obliged to draw a slip, but anyone who 
wishes may. If he answers five questions correctly 
he receives a prize. If one or more answers are in- 
correct he does not receive anything, and if all are 
incorrect he must pay a fine of five cents. A list of 
answers, numbered according to the numbers of the 
slips, are kept for reference. Inexpensive fancy arti- 
cles, donated by those interested in the work, may be 
used as prizes. In this way, all money received as 
fines will be pure gain. 

A Cushion Sale 
A cushion sale is also worth thinking about. It is 
one of the easiest of bazaars to arrange for, and is 



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attractive to both men and women. For both sexes 
are patrons of the restful cushion. The comfortable 
article never fails to sell to advantage. 

I spoke of the readiness with which a cushion sale 
could be arranged for. The least possible work and 
worry will carry it through. As soon as the sale has 
been resolved on, each woman interested in the good 
work agrees to make, or to have made, a certain num- 
ber of cushions for the purpose. 

Pillows of every size and every price should be in 
stock. They should come in silk and linen, denim 
and velvet, plush and brocade and tapestry; in woven 
ribbons and various nets over colors. There should 
be head rests and footrests, college pillows of the vari- 
ous universities, balsam pillows against insomnia, 
pillows for the baby coach — in fact, every conceivable 
kind of cushion. 

Of course, as pillows naturally impart a look of 
Eastern luxury, the halls in which the fair is held 
should be hung, to further the scheme, with any Ori- 
ental hangings and draperies that can be secured for 
the occasion. The aides might, if desired, be cos- 
tumed in Turkish or Persian dress. Each buyer of a 
cushion should be offered coffee, cake and bonbons 
before he leaves the stall. 

A Patriotic Fair 
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calls aloud with its red, white and blue, to his sense of 
patriotism. The rooms in which the sale is held are 
hung with American flags, and the booths are prettily 
draped in red, white and blue bunting. All articles 
offered for sale must be of national colors, or trimmed 
with them, or suggestive of them. At the flower 
booths, bouquets of white and red carnations, or roses, 
and purple violets are displayed, prettily tied with 
the patriotic colors. Cushions and photograph 
frames, fancy work and bureau belongings are all in 
red, white and blue. The books at the bookstall are, 
all of them, upon patriotic themes, and pictures, at 
the picture booth, are all distinctly American in sub- 
ject. 

Soldier caps trimmed in the tricolor would draw the 
youngsters. Red, white and blue china might be 
used in the refreshment rooms, and all ice-cream 
should be served in the tricolor. 

A Stock Sale 

One more practical suggestion — a stock sale. This 
original sort of bazaar is proving excellent, both as 
fun and profit. It can be used to replace the old- 
fashioned church bazaars or any entertainment that 
bears upon its ticket the words: ^'for the benefit of." 

The stock sale is not an affair where bulls and bears 
could figure. It is a bazaar where all manner of 
pretty neckwear, especially stocks, are offered for 



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sale. Neckwear for both men and women is seen. 
Neckwear of every description. 

Everyone needs an outfit of neckwear from time 
to time. At a stock bazaar charming creations are 
offered at reasonable rates, so that each visitor is glad 
to become a patron. Pretty stocks in the stores cost 
from two dollars to seven or eight. A girl who is 
clever with her needle, and has a pet pattern, can 
make one in an hour. 

The committee of a proposed stock sale get every 
woman of their acquaintance to make neckwear for 
them. If a woman has but little money and time she 
is asked for one piece. If she has plenty of both, a 
dozen pieces are expected. Each contributor pays, 
of course, for her own material, but material is chosen 
to suit her private purse. Towards the day of the 
sale, the managers find that they have in hand several 
hundred pieces of neckgear. They are quite as satis- 
factory as those bought in the shops, and they have 
cost nothing. 

They command a good sale, at prices ranging from 
fifty cents to five dollars. 



MAKING AN UGLY ROOM PRETTY FOR A 

FAIR 

Having an exceptionally ugly room to deal with in 
a small fair they were arranging for a charitable end, 



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the members of the committee hit upon a brilKant 
scheme. 

They took white pasteboard dry goods boxes about 
a foot and a half square and three or four inches deep, 
and colored the outer sides and bottom with green 
paint. As the lids were almost as deep as the boxes 
these were taken off and treated in the same way. 
Both boxes and lids were perforated at each corner 
and through these holes were drawn and tied tissue- 
paper ribbons, which were afterward finished with a 
bow at the top so as to form hanging baskets. 

Then, using the patterns that come with the little 
ten cent tissue-paper flower sets, they produced tissue- 
paper flowers, leaves and vines. No special care was 
necessary as it was a general effect only that was de- 
sired. When the twelve little baskets were suspended 
from the ceiling in different parts of the room, the 
result was most satisfactory and pleasing. 

Instead of painting them one might cover ordinary 
pasteboard boxes with blue or brown crepe paper. 



MORE GOOD PLANS FOR PAY PICNICS 

It is becoming more and more the custom in country 
and suburban places to make up picnic parties and 
other outings for the early morning hours rather than 
for the afternoon during hot weather. 

Seven o'clock, or even 6 o'clock, is appointed for 



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the gathering which terminates at noon, allowing the 
guests to reach home by i o'clock, thus escaping all 
the intense heat which frequently mars the pleasure 
of the afternoon affair. 

Where a field or a bit of cleared woodland is close 
at hand the children could have an early morning 
picnic. The novelty of the idea would be sure to 
please everybody and all could have their fill of fun 
before the real warmth of the day set in. 

For a field outing a rainbow party is truly delight- 
ful. The idea is that of the parlor rainbow party, 
but extended and with many new features. Invita- 
tions could be written on tinted cards, having the 
hostess' name, the date and place of assembling, and 
the words ^^ Rainbow Picnic" in one corner. The 
hours set are from 6 to 12. 

Rainbow Search 

Of course, there will be a rainbow search, but car- 
ried out in this case with long strands of colored tissue 
paper cut like rainbows and trailed through the grass, 
over bushes and low boughs, even for the boys, 
strands over the tree tops. 

The effect when all the rainbow beams have been 
arranged is extremely pretty. 

Each child draws a slip on which is written the 
name of some color or shade represented by a strand. 
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the loose ends begin within a certain prescribed circle), 
and when he finds it must follow wheresoever it leads. 
If the wind causes a few breaks in the paper here and 
there, these add to, rather than detract from, the fun. 

Instead of prizes or gifts at the end of the strands, 
each youngster can discover a little basket decorated 
with ribbon in the color of his rainbow beam contain- 
ing a dainty little picnic lunch to be enjoyed as soon 
as all have found the ends of their particular "rain- 
bows." 

Or little earthenware crocks can be gilded to sug- 
gest the fabled pot of gold at the rainbow's end and 
the lunches packed away in these. 

Surprise Picnic 

Instead of adopting the idea of the rainbow, which 
may, where it is preferred, be carried out in detail, 
throughout the entire morning, a surprise picnic may 
be devised, which will keep the children amused and 
interested every moment of the time until the going 
home bell sounds, to be reluctantly relinquished in all 
probability even then. 

Any inventive grown-up or picnic committee can 
devise a set of surprises to occur at intervals during 
the progress of the gathering, but a few suggestions 
may help to show the plan. 

For one surprise have a certain spot (preferably 
sandy) marked off and given up to hidden treasure. 



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The children are provided with spades and are allowed 
to dig until each finds a bundle containing treasure 
trove. Of course, the packages hold nothing more 
expensive than little five or ten cent toys or gifts, but 
found in this mysterious and delightful way, the little 
people will appreciate them more than costly gifts 
presented in a more conventional manner. 

Then there could be a hunt, for instance, a clothes- 
pin search for clothespins, hidden ever)rwhere in the 
green, each one found to count one point. Some pins 
can be tied in among the green branches with fine 
thread, others hidden among the fallen leaves, the 
moss, etc., and if there be a stream, others can be 
set afloat, furnished with tiny hooks, to be fished for 
from the bank with specially prepared fishing lines 
of sticks with cord. It will all be splendid fun, and 
if a prize can be in keeping for the greatest number of 
clothespins obtained in any game, the pleasure will be 
complete. 

Novel Refreshments 

If possible, have some little portion of the grounds 
set aside for the distribution of novel refreshments and 
arrange it so that the children do not enter this part 
of the meadow wood or garden until the time for 
^' eats'' arrives. 

When they are finally conducted hither it will mean 
the crowning surprise and pleasure of the day. 

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orated with tiny packages, containing sandwiches. 
By the color of the package, the nature of the sand- 
wich therein can be told infallibly. Thus pale blue 
tissue paper contains cheese; pale pink, tongue; pale 
green, ham; white, bread and honey, etc. Some older 
person is present, close to the tree, to explain about 
the different colors and to distribute to each one his 
preference. 

Provided with their sandwiches the children are 
further conducted to the Lemonade Well. This is a 
shiny new tin of lemonade, which has been sunk in 
the moss in some cool spot. Glass cups and a dipper 
are close by, and each child in turn fills his cup from 
the Lemonade Spring, or (as it can also be termed) 
well. 

The refreshment terminates with a bonbon shower. 
For this a large tissue-paper bag resembling a huge 
rose is discovered, attached in the foliage of some tree 
high above the heads of the picnickers. From the 
rose hang ribbons which, when pulled, result in a 
shower of candies, of which all the children partake. 
Paper covered candies should be used for this shower. 

These are but a few of the ideas which can be car- 
ried out without too much trouble or expense. 

Sunrise Picnic 
For adult guests the idea of a sunrise picnic is 
charming and new. 



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The actual hour of sunrise need not be adhered to, 
the hostess naming any time on her cards or notes of 
invitation sufficiently matutinal for the gathering. 

Except for the fact that the morning and not the 
afternoon is appointed, the program may resemble that 
of the usual field outing. There may be games, fol- 
lowed by a feast and dancing, or any other plan that 
is commonly adhered to and liked. 

A feast to which each brings a certain pre-arranged 
viand is preferred by most picnickers, the entire party 
to gather around table cloths spread on the grass and 
the good things enjoyed together. 

Others prefer a basket luncheon plan, to which 
each picnicker, or each young couple, brings a special 
small basket containing a few dainties in small quan- 
tity. 

Occasionally, too, it makes a pleasant break in the 
program to convene in the kitchen of a farmhouse or 
of a roadside inn for a repast ordered in advance. 

Early Morning Breakfast 
For a smaller entertainment, say a dozen guests or 
less, a sunrise breakfast can be advised as being truly 
all that is most enjoyable for any warm weather date. 
Usually the hour set is 6 or 7, and as soon as all are 
on the scene, breakfast is served at little tables under 
the trees, or picnic fashion on a table cloth spread 
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If the house is near at hand the following menu 
would be a very palatable one, not too complicated for 
a sunrise breakfast: i, canteloupe or strawberries 
in season; 2, baked bluefish or broiled shad roe, with 
new potatoes and watercress, lamb chops or individual 
tenderloins with French fried potatoes and peas; 
grape fruit salad; wafers, cheese and coffee. 



GARDEN BOOTH FOR A FAIR 

A booth that made an unmistakable hit at a spring- 
time fair was one dedicated to gardeners and garden- 
ing. The stall was built in square shape and was 
covered with verdant colored denim to suggest a 
greensward. The top was massed with bushes and 
tiny toy trees were glued upright to the denim here 
and there. Around the booth ran a sanded walk, 
along which visitors passed to make their purchases. 
This walk was marked out with bay trees and box 
bushes with garlands of green stretched from one to 
another of them. The fair aides were attired in green 
with bewitching sunbonnets, although any other ap- 
propriate dress, for instance, a flower costume, could 
be substituted. 

On each of the four counters of the quadrangle 
something of use to the gardener was sold. 

On one there were garden tools, watering pots, in- 
sect remedies for plants, and other useful accessories 



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in the art of horticulture. On another side, seeds, 
bulbs, clippings and roots were displayed, ticketed at 
moderate prices. 

The novel idea adopted for still another counter 
was that of growing pots of various kinds, all interest- 
ing to the kitchen. Mint, for instance, fresh and 
green chives, parsley, and other pot herbs, while the 
fourth side was, of course, given over to growing 
flowers in pots. 



LET THE GRAB BAGS ALL WALK ABOUT FOR 
NOVELTY'S SAKE 

The latest kind of a grab bag is an animated one 
which perambulates the room or hall instead of re- 
maining in one position, and thus catches much 
chance trade. 

The person who acts as walking grab bag must be 
of a vivacious turn, and the costume must be one of 
extreme oddity to attract attention in the crowd. 

One good idea is to have a figure connected with 
the history of one's city or district. Thus New York 
might have Father Knickerbocker or Hendrick Hud- 
son, Philadelphia, William Penn or a fair Quakeress 
of exaggerated proportions. 

The children will love a quaint and most startling 
old lady in hoopskirt and bombazine, who goes bob- 
bing around the room with her voluminous skirts 



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filled with numbered pockets, in which gifts are con- 
cealed. 

The old lady should wear an antiquated bonnet or 
a cap and long corkscrew curls. 

Another amusing suggestion would be to have a 
Samantha Allen, whose boasted 300 pounds can be 
simulated in a way to attract general attention as she 
passes around the room. Samantha can carry a 
huge ^'carpetbag" filled with the prize packages. 

For large fairs two, or even three, walking grab 
bags will not be too much, and the gifts can be ap- 
portioned according to price. Thus one could have 
5-cent gifts, one lo-cent gifts, and one 15-cent pack- 
ages. 

It is always good business in this kind of a feature, 
as well as in other departments of a fair, to have the 
articles unquestionably worth the money expended. 

Each grab bag should be armed with a little bell or 
whistle with which to attract a crowd should pur- 
chasers fail at any time. A fishhorn, should the grab- 
bag be able to operate it, would be excellent. 



HEATHEN CHINEE GATHERS UP MELIKAN 
MAN'S PENNIES AT THE CHINESE LAUN- 
DRY STALL 
One effective feature which never fails to draw in 

contributions is a booth arranged with figured calico 



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curtains, Chinese prints, etc., to look like a Chinese 
laundry. 

In this booth the attendants are young men, and 
are costumed, of course, as Chinese, with long, pen- 
dant pigtails. It adds to the fun if they converse in 
pigeon English with the purchasers. 

The idea of this booth is in reality that of the old- 
time poke sale, but in a new and merry guise. Pur- 
chasers pay five or ten cents, as in the original poke 
auction, and receive packages of the contents of 
which they are ignorant. 

On one side of the booth Ching Lee sells the checks, 
which are made out on colored dull-finish paper and 
numbered with a brush and paint to give the effect 
of Chinese laundry checks. 

On the opposite side, Wong Sing receives the checks 
which have been purchased and delivers up the pack- 
ages having corresponding numbers. These are 
wrapped to suggest collars as they come from a Chinese 
laundry. 

A PINE FOREST BAZAAR 

One idea carried out in a little fair held at a prom- 
inent mountain resort one autumn might be intro- 
duced at Christmas time in the city with equally 
good results. The hall was banked with pine trees 
placed upright as if growing. Boughs of the pine 
covered the various booths, while the floor crackled 
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with pine needles, which after they were trampled be- 
gan to emit their deliciously pungent aroma. 

Gray and brown velvet squirrels, holding pin 
cushion nuts, were perched in the trees and were after- 
ward sold at 50 cents apiece. 

AN INSURANCE BOOTH 
One of the most novel features of a bazaar in New 
York was an insurance booth. Here any kind of in- 
surance was placed and it was possible to take out a 
policy in any company whatever. The commission 
involved, whether '4ife" ''fire" or ''accident" was 
taken out, was contributed to the Suffrage cause. 
A painted sign attracted attention to the booth. 

A MORNING GLORY SALE 
A small bazaar which was successful beyond the 
expectations of its originators was a morning glory 
sale. A profusion of morning glory vines and flowers 
made of paper formed the basis of the decorations, 
which were unusually pretty. These vines were 
trailed through lattices, twined in the greenery which 
banked the walls of the room and were used to out- 
Kne the stalls, or decorate the refreshment table. 

Some of the young women helpers wore hats 
trimmed with morning glories, and others had 
wreaths of the artificial blossoms in their hair. 



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One special feature of the fair was the ^^ Early 
Morning Booth," where distinctively matutinal 
articles, including the following, were sold: 

Egg boilers, toast racks and chafers for the early 
breakfast table; time table holders for the morning 
trains, breakfast china, dainty negligees, bedroom 
breakfast trays and outfits for these, porridge sets, 
books of breakfast recipes, breakfast caps, framed 
early morning mottos and household order cards. 



A MARCONI BOOTH 

A Marconi Booth from which wireless messages 
could be sent was one of the original features of a re- 
cent fair. The same bazaar had a Tanagra booth 
where the aides were in ancient Greek costume. Tan- 
agra figurines, as well as vases and other art objects, 
were on sale. The same fair also provided a minia- 
ture air ship flight for the amusement of its patrons. 

A FREAK SHOW 
A novel and amusing side issue which could be ar- 
ranged in connection with a fair or festival of any 
kind is a freak show. The requirements, which are 
not very exacting, are a separate room or tent, a 
small elevated platform, a clever manager, and the 
various freaks. Ten cents admission is charged. 



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Some of the inanimate exhibits can be arranged 
around the room or tent in cages. For instance, a 
wooly dog from the toy shop with an extra head sewed 
on his shoulders could occupy a grocery box with a 
front of wire poultry netting and should be placarded, 
'Xarlo, the Two-Headed Dog." 

Make also a huge serpent out of one or more lengths 
of garden hose with a head cut from a worn-out rubber 
shoe, having huge white staring eyes painted on it. 
Label this serpent, ^^ Serpen tis Rubberneckus from 
Zanzibar. " Have a fat lady built over a huge barrel 
and padded out with excelsior. Her head can be 
painted on a circular cushion like that old-fashioned 
rag doll, and owing to her avoirdupois no neck is vis- 
ible. 

In contradistinction to the fat person have a living 
skeleton, whose attenuated form is chiefly made up of 
one of the steel frames home dressmakers use for drap- 
ing skirts. 

The head to this freak can be two wire sieves put 
together, with big white marbles or something of that 
kind stuck on for eyes. 

The living freaks are exhibited upon the stage one 
at a time, the manager glibly explaining, as the exhibit 
roars or gibbers, wherein it differs from ordinary 
mortals. Much of the fun depends on the absurdity 
of these explanations. 

For instance, the first freak might be the Wild 



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Brothers of Borneo. These are impersonated by 
two small boys wearing costumes of some rough, 
shaggy brown goods concealing their conventional 
attire, and with wild-looking wigs, the hair of which 
hangs forward over the face and eyes. Their brown, 
hairy costumes are covered with large and very con- 
spicuous round spots put on with paint, and during 
this harangue the exhibitor calls attention to the fact 
that they are "spotted." "Some of the spots, ladies 
and gentlemen, being outside, but the most part in- 
side." The Wild Brothers are tied by the foot to 
small fiatirons, and during their presentation they 
plunge and tug at their chains uttering weird howls 
and cries. 

According to the introduction, "they were captured 
about three months ago and all attempts at communi- 
cation with them in sign language have so far failed. 
They are apparently on the same mental level as 
monkeys. Their food is green herbs, fruit, and vege- 
tables, and they revolt in horror from cooked viands.^' 

Another delightful freak is the human ostrich, for 
which any one with an elementary knowledge of parlor 
magic can pose. This freak swallows innumerable 
eggs, pies, and even incredible things, such as yards of 
tape, hats, silk handkerchiefs, etc. His get-up should 
be in some way extraordinary to raise a laugh. 

A Double-faced Lady would be diverting and might 
be impersonated by a youth who is a clever dancer. 



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For the extra face draw a smooth piece of muslin hav- 
ing eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it over the back 
of the head and conceal the edges thereof in a fringe 
of false hair. The double-faced female can give a few 
lively flings, whirls, and pigeon toes, when the effect 
of the comic face seen in her gyrations will be the 
most ludicrous. 



THE PAGEANT OF THE FLOWERS 

For a school entertainment in the spring or early 
summer, with the object of raising money, a new and 
lovely plan is a floral pageant in which personifications 
of all the flowers and green growing things of Mother 
Earth take part. 

If arranged with this end in view the pageant can 
include many pretty drills, dances and songs, afford- 
ing the local or scholastic talent a chance to show 
what it can do in these fields. 

The requirements are a setting with attractive 
greenery and ample space for the various evolutions 
as well as seating room for an audience. 

Lithographed posters decorated in floral design 
tacked up in public places some weeks before the 
event are useful in the publicity line. 

Dividing the young folks into groups to wear colors 
which harmonize specially well is the first step for the 
committee of arrangements. Each actor carries a 



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long stick, staff or wand painted either white or green 
and surmounted by a bouquet of some special flower 
either natural or of paper. If boys take part, the girls 
carry the flowers, while the wands of their swains are 
topped with ferns, green leaves or bunches of vines 
fastened on with ribbon. 

The long dowel rods are used for these wands. 
They should be of such a height that when the end is 
rested upon the ground in front of the bearer the face 
behind it is completely concealed. 

Several heralds costumed all in green are required. 
Their special function is to summon the flowers by 
sounding their floral trumpets (which are described 
below). 

This trumpet signal is the cue for all the various 
blossoms to hasten from the four points to convene 
at a certain spot. Many groups arrive breathless, 
eagerly seeking to discover the reason for the sum- 
mons. 

When all or at least a greater part of the groups 
have arrived, the first of many pretty evolutions begins. 

One extremely effective figure would be the Liv- 
ing Flag, in which those with appropriate colors in 
their costumes group themselves into a floral sem- 
blance of Old Glory. As they go through the pretty 
mazes previously arranged all should join in ^^The 
Star-Spangled Banner." 

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vate their flower wands above their heads closely 
grouped so as to give the effect of a starry banner 
floating in the air. The staves are gently undulated, 
as this feature is called The Waving Flag. 

One of the prettiest evolutions is The Maze, where 
the young people walk in an ever-narrowing circle until 
they can proceed no further, after which, of course, 
they ^^ unwind" by reversing the movement. 

Between the winding and the unwinding let all come 
to a stand and wave their flower-tipped staves in the 
air with rhythmical motions previously drilled. 

Flower Arches, too, is extremely picturesque. The 
drill is arranged by having certain groups rest their 
wands arch-wise against those of other groups, thus 
forming a covered path under which the others march, 
arches and marchers constantly changing, of course. 

If boys take part in the performance the arches 
may be formed by the floral wands of girls, the green 
ones of boys being rested against each other. 

For another special feature have the Living Bouquet. 
This might take the form of a nosegay of quaint old- 
time garden flowers and as such would probably 
make a hit. To get it up, one group of players is 
specially costumed to represent old-fashioned flowers. 
The whole effect of the bouquet when grouped should 
be studied out in advance and the costumes planned 
accordingly. 

Flower songs or recitations would be attractive. 



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Those among the girls who do not dress to repre- 
sent special blossoms could have close-fitting hoods of 
green muslin sewed over with tiny paper buds. 

Boys who do not wear full fancy dress can have rush 
hats trimmed with special leaves. 

A figure out of the ordinary run could be one where 
Columbia welcomes all the flowers that flourish in 
American soil. The girl who takes the part of Col- 
umbia could be robed like the Bartholdi statue and 
carry a torch, or she could wear the tricolor, the 
Phrygian cap of Liberty and so forth. 

There should be a throne for her, for which a mound 
of greenery is most appropriate. The heralds grouped 
around Columbia's throne sound their trumpets and 
immediately afterward the flowers begin to appear 
and pass in review. For this feature let each page- 
anter carry a banner on which in some way is repre- 
sented a flower of our gardens or fields. The bearer 
of the banner if a girl should wear a wreath of the 
same flowers in paper or cotton, in the case of a boy 
the hat should be thus decorated. 

To make the banners (which is not difficult to do), 
bend heavy wire into banner or shield shape with 
pincers and fasten each wire frame thus made on the 
top of a light staff or rod; over the wire paste tightly 
drawn strong green material of some kind, as green 
linen or paper muslin. On the green stuff tack moss, 
real or artificial, and attach the flowers to the moss. 



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Where a very large number of performers will take 
part each group instead of each individual can have 
its banner. Thus, there might be six or eight girls 
and boys representing daisies preceded by a daisy en- 
sign and the same for buttercups, honeysuckle, holly- 
hocks, roses, etc. 

As each group passes the reviewing stand occupied 
by Columbia, some pretty feature, not too long, is 
gone through. A verse in praise of their floral tribe 
sung or recited would be charming, or the recognition 
of Dame Columbia could be in the nature of a short 
drill figure. 

For the trumpets mentioned above, have ordinary 
tin horns, not too heavy, covered with paper to repre- 
sent yellow trumpet flowers, arum lilies or other blos- 
soms of horn-like shape. The musicians furnishing 
the stirring marches and accompaniments should be 
concealed behind a leafy screen. 

It is pretty to have Columbia greet each floral group 
with some well-chosen words. Rhyme is, of course, 
most desirable when it can be contrived. The flowers 
may return the greeting, singing it. 

The ideal setting for a floral pageant is one where 
there are trees, since in this case the flowers can wind 
in and out the mimic forest toward the center of the 
scene. Erect here and there in the path of the pro- 
cession special arches covered with green and deco- 
rated with paper flowers. 



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Where the entertainment is held in the evening, or 
where there will be an evening as well as an afternoon 
performance, the glamor of illumination is added to 
the scene. 

The trees of the background, the arches, etc., should 
be illuminated with electric bulbs. Or where electricity- 
is impossible use fairy lamps carefully guarded. 

In the case of an evening performance, too, the 
boys (or in the case of an all-girls^ entertainment, one- 
half the girls) are torch-bearers, while the others por- 
tray flowers. The effect of the lights upon the evolu- 
tions is fairy-like. Electric torches or lamps should 
be used for this feature if possible. Where they cannot 
be obtained use small enclosed lanterns, carefully 
guarded for safety. They are mounted on wands of 
the same length as the flower sticks. 

The importance of careful rehearsing in advance 
for this pretty open-air entertainment cannot be too 
much emphasized. 



AN ORIGINAL FAIRY PLAY FOR THE CHIL- 
DREN TO RENDER ON THE LAWN 
Following is a rough draft of a masque to be altered 
and improved by the committee of arrangements. 
If preferred, the libretto of which an abridged sug- 
gestion is given, could be entirely in rhyme. The 
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know or will easily master. The dramatis personae 
is as follows: 

Mortals. Dewdrop. 

Princess. Moonbeam. 

Prince. Rainbow. 

Fairy King. Gossamer. 

Fairy Queen. An Owl. 

Other Fairies. A Monkey. 

The Prince and Princess (who are mortals), should 
be selected from among the taller children in order to 
establish a contrast between their stature and that of 
the fairies. The part of the monkey is taken by a 
lad of acrobatic propensities, able to take hand springs 
and go through other antics in an amusing fashion. 
The r61e of the owl can be taken by any child old 
enough to understand the part and to interpret it 
humorously. The fairy dances, which must be care- 
fully rehearsed, consist of any fancy steps or measures 
which the youngsters have acquired at dancing school, 
rearranged to suit the occasion. 

The order of events is as follows: 

(Enter Princess weeping.) Woe is me, unhappy 
one! Doomed to wander forever, I begin to fear, in 
this enchanted wood where bewitched paths lead one 
ever back to the starting point. Never more to see 
the white towers of my father's castle cleaving the 
sky — ^my home, my parents. 



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(Enter fairy King and Queen.) 

King: Fair stranger, wherefore this distress ? 

Queen: Maiden, confide in us. It may be in the 
power of the fairy folk to assist you. 

Princess: A strange case mine, and I fear hopeless. 
Through the malignity of a powerful and wicked witch, 
who bitterly hates my family, I was lured into this 
enchanted wood and condemned here to wander 
until I can remember my name, which owing to the 
charms of Dame Blackcraft I am unable to think of. 
For hours now I have striven to recall it, but in vain. 
So subtly does the word elude me that I despair of 
ever again finding my way hence. 

King: Take courage. We will assist you in re- 
membering it. 

Queen: Look about you, fair one. Does nothing 
suggest the forgotten word? Behold in the sky the 
first silver star. Was it by any chance Silver Star ? 

Princess: No. That does not sound familiar. I 
am sure there was not a star in it. 

King: Or Blue Sky or Golden Moon ? 

Princess: No. It was neither of those. I would 
remember it if I heard it, I know. 

Queen: Sound your bugle, Oberon. Assemble 
the little people to assist us in guessing this puzzle. 
Everyone shall guess. 

(King blows silver horn which hangs from a girdle 
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form a circle around Oberon, Titania and the mortal 
Princess and dance several times around them. Por- 
tions of Coleridge's Songs of The Pixies might be se- 
lected and set to some familiar air for the fairy chorus 
here.) 

King: My people, I have summoned you to aid 
in relieving the distress of this mortal maid, cruelly 
enchanted by the malicious Dame Blackcraft. If we 
can recall her name which the witch has caused to 
fade from her memory she will then be empowered to 
leave this enchanted wood and to return to her parents. 

Dewdrop: What was the nature of your name, fair 
mortal ? 

Princess: Alas! Even of that I am not quite sure. 
I seem to remember, though, that it was the name of a 
flower? 

Moonbeam: A flower! Lily, perhaps? 

Princess: No. It was not Lily. 

Gossamer: Or Rose ? 

Princess: No, not Rose. I'm sure it was not Rose. 

Rainbow: Or Daffodil ? 

Princess (shakes her head sadly). No. 

King: Pansy, Buttercup, Fleur-de-lys ? 

Princess: No. It was none of these. 

Dewdrop: The owl is very wise. Your majesty 
might send for the owl. 

King: A good idea. Away with you all and bring 
hither the owl. (Fairies dance away and return 



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bringing the owl which they urge forward by prodding 
it with bulrushes and circHng around it in such a 
manner as to prevent escape. The owl moves re- 
luctantly and pecks in all directions.) 

The Owl: What's the matter? Can't you let a 
bird sleep ? It's not dark yet. 

Queen: Brother Owl, we need your assistance in 
guessing the name of a flower. We have guessed 
many but the proper one still eludes us. Can you re- 
call for us some unusual flower name ? 

The Owl: (Yawning.) Flour? Wheat flour. 
Rye flour. 

King: Nay, Sir Owl, where are your wits? A 
blossom, we mean. An unusual blossom. 

Owl: Well, then, the edelweiss. 

Princess: No, it was not the edelweiss. 

Owl: Or the night-blooming cereus ? 

Princess: It was not that. 

Owl: Or the catalyea orchid? 

Princess: (Covering her eyes.) Nor the Orchid. 
Alas! I begin to despair. We will never be able to 
remember it. 

King: Courage. We have not yet exhausted the 
list. 

Queen: A dance, a dance, little people, to cheer the 
despondent Princess. A series of fancy dances is here 
introduced, performed by the children, either singly 
or in couples and quartets. (The Princess weeps.) 



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Dewdrop: She still weeps. 

Gossamer: How shaU we cheer her ? 

Moonbeam: Ask the Owl. 

Rainbow: Sir Owl. How shall we cheer her? 

The Owl: (Still sleepy.) Find her name. 

King: But that we can't as yet discover. 

Owl: Then send for the Monkey. 

Chorus of Fairies: We'll go and bring it. 

Enter fairies with monkey who goes through many 
comical antics to amuse the Princess, who dries her 
eyes and laughs. 

The Queen: She smiles again. Let us continue our 
guessing. Is it Violet? 

Princess: No. 

Dewdrop: Or Hyacinth? 

Princess: No. 

Gossamer: Or Primrose, or Water Lily? 

Chorus of Fairies: Hark! Hist! 

(A voice is heard singing in the background.) 

Voice: Some of the lilies sing, some laud the rose ; 
Some name the violet, loveliest flower that grows. 
But sweetest, fairest of all flowers to me, 
The blue forget-me-not 

(Princess interrupts with a cry.) Why, that's my 
name ! Forget-me-not. 

Chorus of Fairies: Forget-me-not! The forgotten 
name is Forget-me-not. He, he, ha, ha, ho, ho! 



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(Enter Prince Charming in hunting costume.) 

The Princess: The Prince, our friend! I am saved. 

The Prince: Princess Forget-me-not! You here! 

The Princess: Lured hither by the witch, Dame 
Blackcraft. I was placed under the spell of her en- 
chantments and could not find my way out of the 
wood. But now the hideous magic is broken. (They 
join hands.) 

Fairy Chorus: A dance, a dance around the lovers. 
(They circle around the Prince and Princess singing 
this adaptation of an old fairy song of unknown author- 
ship.) 

Upon a mushroom's head 
Our table cloth we spread. 
A grain of rye or wheat 
Is our meat. 

Pearly drops of dew we drink 
In acorn cups filled to the brink. 
On tops of dewey grass 
So nimbly do we pass. 
The young and tender stalk 
Ne'er bends as we do walk. 
Hand in hand let's dance around, 
For this place is fairy ground. 

For these verses can, of course, be substituted any 

others preferred by the librettist or an original set 

may be introduced if local poetic talent is available. 

By choosing a simple subject such as the dilemma 
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of the Princess Forget-me-not that any child will 
readily understand, the results will be infinitely more 
successful than if a more ambitious scheme, above 
the heads of the little actors, were attempted for the 
Fairy Masque. 



YOUNG GIRLS CAN GIVE A PRETTY HOOP 

DRILL 

Either the civic colors of one's town or city, or the 
scholastic hues of the school are represented in this 
drill. One color is represented in the girls' frocks 
while the hoops and hoopsticks are in another. If 
there be a third color to be taken into consideration, 
have the hoopsticks tied with ribbon introducing 
that also. 

The first figure is a pretty one of hoop rolling. Girls 
enter from the left of stage, or, if the entertainment be 
on the school grounds, from behind the arboreal back- 
ground. The following is a simple and good form 
for the drill. Girls entering from the left describe 
a wide circle in the center of the stage or foreground, 
leaving by exit at the right hand. Those leaving by 
the right hand join behind the scene the girls entering 
by the left so that for a few moments the line with 
all its pretty, vivid color effects is graceful and un- 
broken in motion. 

A jingling song can be composed and set to music 



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that is familiar and sung as the hoops roll. The words 
must, of course, apply to or be appropriate to the 
exercise they are engaged on. 

For the second figure there is a gymnastic drill with 
light-weight hoops either in colors as before or deco- 
rated with bows of ribbon or flowers. This set of 
poses will be found attractive. 

All in line. Feet together. Body erect. Hoop 
held in front of driller with both hands. Hoop rests 
on ground. Now all together raise hoops so as to 
form a circular frame for head and shoulders. 
Now let the lines sway first to right, then to left. 
Drop hoops and spring through them. Holding 
hoops aloft form a triumphal arch. Convert the 
arch into a square inclining the hoops a little to the 
center. Let the square revolve slowly three times 
around. The girls must tramp to keep step with the 
march music here. Face now to the right and using 
hands as batons trundle hoops off stage. 

Simultaneously enter from left hoop rollers as be- 
fore. They describe circle in the center of the stage, 
disappearing by the right wing. In their wake with- 
out any intermission enter girls with hoops, in the 
center of which are letters worked out with crepe paper 
over wire. These hoops are trundled in, each girl 
taking a prearranged position back of the footlights 
with her hoop resting on the ground in front of her. 
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message. For instance, for an educational celebra- 
tion, the letters might read, ^'Hail! Alma Mater," 
or *^ Hurrah for the School." For a visiting dig- 
nitary they would read, ^'Welcome to Our Mayor," 
or ^^ Welcome Mr. Mayor," or the like. In the last 
position the hoops are raised above the heads of the 
drillers, who use both hands. This figure emphasizes 
the sentiment spelled by the letters. 

Such a drill could be most successfully used as a 
special number for an amateur vaudeville or cabaret 
program at a charity entertainment on the ^^ boards." 



MOTHER GOOSE WAX WORKS 
A most amusing stage performance which any bright 
band of amateurs can arrange is a wax works exhibi- 
tion with scenes drawn from Mother Goose's Melodies. 
Have ''Mary Mary," Jack and Jill, Old King Cole, 
etc., posed with wax-like rigidity [in suitable settings 
and let some one who is a clever talker explain each 
group in all apparent seriousness as a new and novel 
story. 

Afterwards each, or many, of the wax works can 
come to life and make up a vaudeville program. 
Thus, Peter Pumpkin Eater might deliver a mono- 
logue telling how to keep a wife who is a suffragette. 
Jack and Jill might give a bucket drill, Mary Mary 
might recite a charming poem about old fashioned 



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gardens while Old King Cole might actually call for 
fiddlers three to perform before him. 



A RECEPTION TO GENERAL LAFAYETTE 

A delightful entertainment in the Colonial style 
so popular for outdoor functions was a Reception to 
General Lafayette given in a suburb of Philadelphia, 
Pa. Groups of children in the dress of the Revolu- 
tionary period and of beautiful girls with powdered 
hair and patches rendered the scene a fascinating one. 
The minuet was danced upon the lawn and various 
local characters of the period represented were cleverly 
impersonated by individuals. 



THE CYNIC GET A LAPH 

The clever and catchy title discovered for their 
charity entertainment by a number of bright New 
Yorkers could be adopted by others who have philan- 
thropic stage performances on their hands. One por- 
tion of the program was devoted to moving pictures 
in which the actors disported themselves upon the 
stage behind a gauze screen. When the light was 
thrown on this screen the effect of cinematograph 
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AN EXHIBITION OF FAIR CHILDREN 
Another clever title was An Exhibition of Fair 
Children which applied to a series of portraits posed 
by children of exceptional beauty or interest. Each 
picture was copied from some old master, as Gains- 
borough, Reynolds, etc. 

ADVERTISEMENT TABLEAUX 

At a certain lake resort the young people gave and 
patronized a series of advertising tableaux. The 
boat house was converted into a theatre by means of 
a background of balsam boughs and shrubs, wings of 
green baize, and paper lanterns. The spectators, all 
of whom had previously purchased the twenty-five 
cent tickets, viewed the spectacle from their rowboats 
and canoes clustered together on the lake. The 
novelty of the situation attracted a large number, re- 
sulting in a goodly sum for the widows and orphans 
of deceased mountaineers. 

GEOGRAPHICAL BABY SHOW 

Differing entirely from the ordinary baby show, 
this new one is geographical and instructive, while no 
exhibition of the kind could exceed its interest to 
mothers and all to whom babies are an absorbing sub- 
ject. 



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It is most successfully given in the open air where 
one portion of the grounds can be divided up into 
nurseries. Here are shown the babies of each nation 
— Oriental, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Spanish, French 
and even American Indian. 

Each baby has its nurse or mother in appropriate 
costume. The ayahs from India will jostle bonnes 
from France, etc. As the average person does not 
realize how distinct is the costume of nurses through- 
out the world, many even not knowing that of our 
own Southern mammies, this feature will be a real 
novelty. 

Then there should be baby baskets, cradles, and 
baby belongings in general from all the nationalities. 

As the children of the locality will pose in costume 
for the world-babies, a voting booth where voting 
slips are sold at five cents or ten cents, and contests 
arranged to see which baby receives most votes may 
well be a feature. 

Baby belongings can be sold, photographs of the 
babies in costume offered for sale, etc. 



COMIC BABY SHOW 

A baby show which brought none of the heart 
burnings and maternal jealousies, too usual on such 
occasions, in its train, was given in a fashionable 
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In most ways it was conducted like the conven- 
tional exhibition of the same, the youngsters being 
dressed in their best, classified according to age, etc. 

But here the resemblance ended, for instead of a 
beauty prize, a '^finest child in the show prize, '^ and 
other such dangerous awards, all the trophies were 
humorous. Thus, one prize was given for the biggest 
foot, another for the most hair, one for the fattest 
llegs, and yet another for the greatest number of teeth 
I at a certain age. The function ended in laughter 
and general good feeling. 



A RAG DOLL DANCE 

The human dolls were dressed with cotton wrappers, 
gingham aprons and white neckerchiefs, but all 
garments were in looking-backward style. That is, 
the apron-strings were tied in front at the waist and 
the points of the kerchiefs met in the middle of the 
back. The back of each girl's head was covered with 
a round piece of muslin on which the features had 
been painted rag-doll style and this was surrounded 
with a close-fitting frill to give the effect of a cap. 

When the folding doors were drawn back, the dolls 
reposed as if asleep, but always with their faces away 
from the audience, an attitude which, of course, was 
never abandoned during the performance. The piano 
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jerky;, floppy movements which convulsed the on- 
lookers. The jerks quickened into a dance which, 
although in time with the music, was absurdly laugh- 
able and rag-doll like. 



HOW OTHERS MADE MONEY 

Some Successful Programs in Brief To Inspire 
Yours 

For a new chapel the following stage entertainment 
proved highly successful. Illustrated Magazine idea 
carried out in tableaux, recitations, etc. A graceful 
dance entitled The Jolly Twins and Pierrot rendered 
by two girls and a man. A one-act play taking off mod- 
ern manners. An Apache Dance by one of the young 
men, and a Scarf Dance by one of the girls. 

In aid of a hospital An Arabian Nightmare was 
rendered with success. The ballroom was decorated 
with Arabian booths and girls in Arabian costume 
sold cigarettes, lemonade and flowers. The stage rep- 
resented the Sultan's Court and various forms of 
entertainment such as dancing, singing drills, etc., 
were reproduced for his amusement. The Sultan 
was accompanied by a large retinue of domestics 
and by his wives in full Oriental costume. The en- 
tertainment concluded with an Arabian Nights' play. 
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A New York City society gave a Spring Blossom 
Fete at the appropriate time of year. The ballroom 
was decorated with early blooms, real and artificial. 
The program included music and a debate, and 
concluded with a Spring Blossom cotillion where all 
the favors were in the appropriate floral form. 

For a very beautiful and successful Japanese en- 
tertainment the hall was temporarily converted into 
a Japanese garden. The walls of the hall as well as of 
vestibule, corridor and dining-room were covered with 
bamboo trellis through which passed wistaria (both 
in purple and pink shades of paper) and pink arti- 
ficial plum blossoms. Japanese lanterns and rose 
colored electric lights furnished the illumination. 
The supper was served at small tables set with Jap- 
anese ware, and the menu included certain Japanese 
refreshments. The waiters wore the native costume, 
and the orchestra, although keeping to European 
melodies, were in the dress of Cherry Blossom Land. 
During the supper Japanese jugglers performed and 
moving pictures relating to Japan were rendered in an 
adjoining room. 

A Philadelphia pageant for the benefit of a museum 
was entitled Walpurgis Night. The plot concerned the 
trials and tribulations of a party of tourists who visit 
the Brocken in the Hartz Mountains on Walpurgis 
Night (the night before May ist), a date when, ac- 
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fluences are abroad. The Tourists walked up an 
incline plank from the audience to the stage and their 
arrival there was a signal for letting loose a host of 
witches, devils, ghosts, fairies, etc. Several hundred 
amateur actors took part. The piece ended by the 
cooking of the tourists in a cauldron of boiling water. 



FOR THOSE WHO NEED JUST A HINT 

There comes a time in the history of most church 
or charitable work when the idea of a bazaar ^^can 
no further go. " After being repeated annually for an 
indefinite period the very name of fair has become 
anathema to the Executive Committee. 

What plan can be substituted for that of the worn- 
out bazaar? A plan that will be equally practical as 
a money-maker. 

If any histrionic talent can be discovered in the 
neighborhood (and it is rarely that it cannot be found 
in generous measure) a play is well worth considera- 
tion. 

A presentation of some really good play formerly 
on the boards is a wiser choice as a usual thing than 
one written by an amateur and as yet untried, unless 
the latter has been submitted to competent authority 
and pronounced adapted to stage requirements as 
well as possessing interest. 

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drama or to great dramatists too taxing for amateur 
powers — Shakspere, for example. A small royalty 
will often purchase the amateur rights of a popular 
modern play not at present being performed in one's 
city. In some cases no such payment will be neces- 
sary or exacted. 

Comedy is superlatively the choice for amateurs, 
the field in which the most certain success awaits 
their efforts. There are several publishing houses 
which make a specialty of good plays for private 
theatricals from whom the full librettos can be ob- 
tained. 

Short plays, three or four of which can be rendered 
during an evening's entertainment, represent a grow- 
ing fancy. In amateur circles such a program would 
afford opportunity for a larger cast of characters as 
well as a more varied performance. 

Possibilities of Opera 

Where there are good voices and general musical 
appreciation, light operas may be rehearsed and ren- 
dered with success. Comic opera and burlesque are 
specially happy in the hands of amateurs. The more 
profound and tragic compositions are not, of course, 
to be considered. 

Morality plays founded on the popular dramatics 
of the fourteenth century which "Everyman" has 
reintroduced and rendered delightful to modern au- 



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diences are being successfully rendered on the ama- 
teur stage. 

The possibilities of vaudeville have been frequently 
referred to. A monologue well given would afford 
a popular number for a vaudeville program. Or it 
could be introduced with the shorter plays or as a 
curtain raiser. 

Many of the magazines now devote space to this 
species of composition. In case original talent is 
lacking good monologues are easily obtained. Many 
favorites are worth reviving, too. How few modern 
audiences are familiar with the inimitable adventures 
of Mrs. Brown as related by herself in characteristic 
dialogue! 

Judicious selections to be read or recited would 
probably meet with an enthusiastic reception. 

Private minstrel shows have been successfully pre- 
sented by amateur companies, and while not new 
seem to hold their interest from year to year when 
in the hands of clever people. Particular favor seems 
to be extended to exhibitions in which the entire 
troupe is composed of women. Topical songs, local 
hits, jokes original and otherwise go to make up the 
scheme of this amusing form of catch-penny. 

Many other ideas are possible which involve no 
histrionics, where the combined aim is mutual enjoy- 
ment and money-making for some worthy end. 

A subscription card party with prizes, if well man- 



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aged, seldom fails to accomplish the end for which it 
was planned. Prizes are usually contributed by 
wealthy members of the community interested in the 
good work. Or local merchants may be willing to 
help out by donations (to be given as prizes) for the 
sake of the advertisement involved. 

Either one dollar or fifty cents is a popular price for 
the ticket. The game played may be the familiar 
one of euchre, or the patronesses may prefer whist, 
bridge, hearts, or a series of familiar games, each 
table being devoted to a different contest. 

The rummage sale is no longer to be considered 
among the latest ideas, yet, on the other hand, it is 
far from being exhausted as a means of gathering up 
small contributions. 

Subscription Dance 

A subscription dance is always worth a thought for 
a guild or church society in which many young people 
are interested. 

The motive suggested by the season, as Christmas, 
Easter, St. Valentine's, can be employed. Decora- 
tions, invitations, supper and all details might be 
made to represent the seasonable idea, as in a purely 
social function. 

A novel plan which has been found extremely 
effective in some communities is that of labor vol- 
unteers. The committee meets and each member 



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wishing to take an active interest in the good work 
volunteers her services for a week. These services 
are understood to be work undertaken in spare 
moments, the proceeds of which go to the good object 
in question. 

The question of how to employ one's spare moments 
is left to the individual. As each volunteer endeavors 
to be able to contribute the largest sum to the new 
fund, competition is always lively. 

The woman clever at fancywork may elect to em- 
broider a blouse to be afterward sold and the proceeds 
contributed. 

COLUMBUS DAY TABLEAUX 

For a pay entertainment on Columbus Day, instead 
of a play or other more exacting entertainment, the 
fee can be reduced to ten cents and a series of tableaux, 
with cast made up of young folks, arranged. The 
set given below would be easy to get up and entertain- 
ing. 

1. The boy Columbus on the seashore dreaming of 
his future fame as a navigator. 

2. Columbus and his father-in-law Bartholomew 
Perestrello studying Perestrello's charts. 

3. Columbus in poverty begging bread at a con- 
vent near Palos. 

4. Isabella pawns her jewels to furnish Columbus 
with ships. 



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5. The mutiny of Columbus' crew. 

6. Columbus hailed with homage on his return to 
Spain. 

7. Columbus old and neglected at Valladolid. 

8. Columbus honored by the children of America 
in modern times with wreaths and acclamations. 

These tableaux by the young persons could if so 
desired furnish but half the program, the remainder 
to be made up of miscellaneous features. For instance, 
music and travelog, etc. 

The following is just a suggestion: 
(Choral) "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." 
Short illustrated talk on the Contemporaries and 
Times of Christopher Columbus. 

Or a travelog with lantern slides or moving pictures 
entitled, "In Columbus' Land." 

Spanish and Italian folk dances and folk songs. 



THANKSGIVING SHADOW PICTURES 

A specially jolly plan for an entertainment on 
Thanksgiving Eve is Colonial Shadowgraphs. Every- 
one knows how to arrange the curtain for the shadow 
silhouettes, and by giving the series a turn suitable 
for the occasion a very amusing result is obtained. 
Here are some good points to illustrate: 

I. Landing of The Pilgrims. Have a big packing- 
box for Plymouth Rock. Some should leap with 



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great trepidation. Some should slide and fall (this 
part for the small boys) and any other *' funny busi- 
ness" that can be thought out. 

2. Friendly Indian greeting the new arrivals. 
Great powwow and difficulty in understanding. 
Colonists hold their hands to their ears and make 
signs illustrative of what they mean. 

3. The Pilgrims going single file and armed to meet- 
ing. The Indians attack them and are ludicrously 
repulsed and some slain. Let the Pilgrims appear to 
sit on the heads of the Indians they have downed or 
make fun in any other absurd way. 

4. Pilgrim Mother training in a raw Pequot girl as a 
household ^^help." The redskin maid should be a 
perfect Tillie Slowboy, letting the baby drop in the 
wash tub, falling over chairs and tables until the 
mistress in desperation chases her back to the forest 
primeval with her broom. 

5. John Alden and Priscilla, billing and cooing over 
the spinning wheel. 

6. The First Thanksgiving Day. The Pilgrims 
stagger in, tottering under burdens of enormous 
pumpkins and turkeys. 

7. Myles Standish, the Captain of Pl5rniouth, drills 
raw recruits. They fall over their muskets, etc. 
Myles tears his hair and jumps madly about. 

8. Capture of a witch and her escape. The witch 
flies up in the air, disappointing her pursuers. This is 

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done by stepping over a candle. Meanwhile a toy 
sorceress which can be bought anywhere at Hallowe'en 
season is drawn up the curtain very slowly. 



AMATEUR THEATRICALS 

Amateur theatricals given at Thanksgiving season 
frequently have a flavor of that feast which adds to 
their timeliness and popularity. 

A feature that was very much enjoyed at such a 
performance last year was called Colonial Silhouettes 
and was in reality a very dainty series of tableaux 
drawn from the early story of our country, particularly 
the legends and romance of it. 

Scenes from popular fiction, the scene of which was 
laid in Colonial days, were charmingly represented. 

The second half of this program was a vaudeville 
series which numbered some very timely features. 
For instance, an original topical song was devised and 
sung, the refrain being ^^So I feel deeply thankful for 
that." Of course, each verse was devoted in the 
usual way to some objectionable public feature of the 
place in which the entertainment was given, and re- 
counted a comic plan which had been discovered for 
abolishing the troublesome thing in question, the 
refrain coming in very ^^pat," and keeping the 
audience in a gale of laughter. 

Another comic stunt planned for the season was a 



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dance of small children wearing funny green costumes, 
the feet and hands of which seemed to terminate 
in green stalks, while their heads were covered with 
masks representing yellow goggling pumpkins. Each 
comic little ^^pumpkinhead" carried a pumpkin lan- 
tern. Stage lights were turned low during the per- 
formance and the effect was most fantastical. 



HELP BUILD THE LIBRARY WITH AN 
INDIAN ENTERTAINMENT 

Indian Church Supper 

For a church supper the Indian plan is a splendid 
one. Strips of leather are fringed and used for the 
table in the form of runners either with or without 
the usual white cloth, according to the appearance 
of the table itself. 

For the centerpiece use a large Indian bowl or 
basket filled with autumn fruits. This should be 
arranged in a bed of goldenrod, autumn leaves or 
wild asters if these are still in bloom at the time chosen 
for the event. Or with pine sprays, bittersweet 
berries and pine-cones. Grouped on each side of the 
centerpiece have little images of some of the wild 
beasties which we associate with Indian life, the wild 
horse, the bear, the eagle, the stag, and so forth. Each 
of these stands in a little mound of the same green 



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or blossom used for the centerpiece and the effect is 
both novel and pleasing. 

Another suggestion would be to have the entire 
table laid out to represent the wildwood, having for 
the central figure a lake made of a mirror and sur- 
rounded by the green moss or vines. The little wax 
ducks which float can be used here as wild ducks with 
excellent effect. Equidistant from the lake and 
grouped around it come the wild beasties as before 
described. Pine sprays and cones and the beautiful 
bursting milkweed pods or partridge berry are dis- 
posed here and there over the cloth. Candlesticks repre- 
senting tree trunks are used, or ordinary ones are 
covered with paper or imitation birchbark to sug- 
gest trees. At each cover is an arrow on which the 
place card is speared. 

The menu could be along this general line though 
little changes may be necessary to suit the individual 
case, 

I. Cream of maize soup with sal tines. 2. Cold 
sliced venison (mere roast beef if need be) and cold 
sliced wild turkey. Redman's bread (corn bread) and 
camp fire potatoes (sweet potatoes roasted in their 
skins), birchbark ice-cream with wild honey sand- 
wiches. Brown bread sandwiches with honey filling 
are delicious with ice-cream. The ice-cream can be 
homemade, of any flavor preferred, and served in tiny 
canoes of imitation birchbark. Another dainty plan 



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is to serve each portion in a small sweet grass basket, 
the receptacle lined with parafl&ne paper and intended 
as a souvenir. 

If a sociable is to follow the supper all the games 
and contests could have a redskin flavor in honor of 
the occasion. 

Here is a splendid contest of a literary order which 
might just fit the occasion. The committee arranges 
it by securing a number of blank books (the three- 
cent size is large enough). They may be covered 
with gay colored paper if there is time for this, and on 
each cover the title Great Indians, Famous Redskins, 
or Redskin Patriots or something of the same kind 
be painted in fancy lettering. At the head of each 
page, or of each two or three pages, the name of some 
celebrated Indian of history, romance, or poetry is 
written. Some names (to illustrate the idea) that 
would be sure to occur are Uncas, King Philip, 
Tecumseh, Pontiac, Pocahontas, Sitting Bull, Pau- 
paukewis. 

A pencil is attached with ribbon to each of the 
books, and when the signal has been given the players 
are called on to write down as much as is known of 
each Indian whose name is given — a complete thumb- 
nail biography if possible ; if not, then detached facts, 
and whether a real personage or an imaginary, should 
be stated. 

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and compared, and the one which is found to be most 
complete and accurate wins as a prize a framed picture 
of some majestic Indian chief, a book on Indian 
basketry or something else equally desirable in ap- 
preciation of the contestant's skill. 

A spelling bee in which all the words given out are 
Indian names found in our native geography would be 
hilarious and would tax the best orthographists among 
the company. The words can be spelled, where the 
guests are young people, in a row as in a genuine spell- 
ing bee. Or have them written and players seated. 



WOMEN THROUGH THE AGES 

A new plan for a public entertainment by amateurs 
is a series of living pictures representing womankind 
throughout the ages. This has been carried out in 
several diverse localities of late, and has everywhere 
proved an attraction. 

The series varies somewhat, according to individual 
choice, but the following program will serve, with 
changes and perhaps a little curtailment, anywhere: 

The cave woman, with background of wild beast 
skins and crude stone implements, making a home 
for herself and her infant in a cavern. 

Ancient Egypt. The Egyptian belle of two thousand 
years B. C. is discovered at her toilet surrounded by 
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Biblical women might J&gure in three scenes. For 
instance, Ruth and Naomi. Esther coming to plead 
for her people. Judith before Holofernes. 

Greece (three scenes). Sappho composing her 
lyrics. 

The Spartan Mother and her Son. 

Hypatia. 

Rome is represented by two scenes. A patrician 
dame with handmaidens and slaves. 

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi. 

In medieval history about six scenes. For instance: 

Heloise instructed by Abelard. 

Judith of France teaching the future Alfred the 
Great. 

Queen Maud the Good dispensing alms. 

The Empress Matilda escaping from Oxford. 

The Countess of Montfort defending a castle from 
y her enemies. 

Queen Philippa interceding for the burghers. 

Modern France might be represented by Marie 
Antoinette at Court and afterward in prison. By 
Mme. Roland, by Charlotte Corday, and by Mme. 
de Stael in conversation with the ^Xittle Corporal." 

Modern England should picture Florence Night- 
ingale engaged in her great work. An eighteenth 
century bluestocking assembly would be amusing, 
especially if such literary figures as Hannah More, Dr. 
Johnson, and Horace Walpole could be figured. The 



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concluding English picture might be a street scene 
of the present time, representing the campaign of the 
suffragists for political equality. 

The American womanhood groups picture the pio- 
neer mother assisting her '^men folks" in defending 
the cabin against the Indians. Of course, Pocahon- 
tas will not be forgotten. 



UNIQUE THANKSGIVING ENTERTAINMENT 
CONDUCTS YOU TO THANKFUL LANE 

A much appreciated part of one Thanksgiving en- 
tertainment given on the eve of the feast was a series 
of Uving pictures grouped together under the title of 
In Thankful Lane. Some of the tableaux were humor- 
ous, others founded on sentiment, but all were clever 
and cleverly worked out. 

An amusing group showing a family interior to 
which one small boy was proudly exhibiting his first 
trousers plainly pointed out what one youngster was 
thankful for. 

A lovely young mother in Priscilla costume rock- 
ing her baby in a quaint wooden cradle was entitled, 
'^Thankful Hepworth's Daughter Thankful." 

There was an interesting and unusual convalescent 
scene with the doctor, the nurse and members of the 
sick girl's family all in attendance and all joyful over 
the approaching return of health. 



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A touching Biblical picture represented the prodigal 
son with his father. 

An historical scene represented the Crusaders re- 
joicing over their first glimpse of the city of Jerusalem 
in the distance. 

What the young girl of eighteen is thankful for was 
suggested in the picture where a charming young girl 
sat opening a box of roses in which the card of an 
admirer was enclosed. The maid who brought in the 
box and the figure of a woman in the backgroimd 
wore discreetly veiled smiles. 



SAMANTHA ALLEN'S PORTRAIT GALLERY 

Samantha, the "second consort" of Josiah Allen 
and a stanch champion of the rights of the "female 
sect," gave an entertainment in aid of a needy sub- 
urban church a short time ago which proved both ex- 
ceptionally amusing and a very substantial pecuniary 
success. 

Being newer and more easily arranged than amateur 
theatricals of the conventional variety, it should com- 
mend itself to perplexed entertainment committees 
everywhere. 

The first hint of the nature of the affair received by 
members of the congregation at large was afforded by 
a shower of very countryfied-looking handbills which 
drifted one morning into many mail boxes. 



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The bills announced a meeting of all the ''Jones- 
ville folks/' headed by Samantha Allen (^^she that 
was a Smith") at Lyceum Hall on such and such a 
date. The gathering was for the benefit of St. Mark's 
Church, it was further explained, and all those inter- 
ested in that ^^meetin' house" were requested to be 
present. Tickets were on sale at 50 cents for adults, 
youngsters, 25 cents. 

The first portion of the program was devoted to a 
series of diverting "introductions." One by one the 
principal and most diversified characters of the famous 
Samantha Allen books appeared on the stage, heralded 
in every case by an introduction, short but most amus- 
ing, by Josiah Allen's wife. The dramatis personam 
were posed in characteristic attitudes behind a large 
wooden frame constructed for the purpose. A curtain 
fall occurred after each picture. 

Samantha herself was arrayed in all the glory of a 
"best bombazine dress," with overskirt and mam- 
moth hoops, and small wartime bonnet, with drooping 
coque feathers. 

The woman who impersonated this character 
(incidentally, with the greatest success) stood five 
feet seven or eight in her shoes and was of robust 
figure. The hoopskirt and a generous allowance of 
tailor's wadding had been resorted to in order to pro- 
duce the effect of the "204 pounds," to which fre- 
quent reference is made in the writings of Samantha. 



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She carried a huge cotton umbrella with which to 
indicate the pictures. 

Naturally first on the list of portraits came Josiah 
Allen, the "lawful pardner," of Samantha. Josiah 
was as spare as his consort was fat. He wore a gray 
wig and goatee, a suit of brown store clothes, broad 
brimmed hat, and (indulging one of his well-known 
weaknesses), an extremely gaudy tie. 

Portrait of Josiah 

In introducing her husband to the assemblage 
(whom by the way she addressed as "Brethern and 
Sistern")? Samantha gave a most amusing descrip- 
tion compounded from the details of her partner given 
in the various Samantha books, and interwoven with 
characteristic stories gleaned from the same source 
(such as that of Josiah at the picnic) which kept the 
audience rocking with laughter. 

She spoke feelingly of her marriage to him "in a 
bran new silk dress — a kind of cinnamon brown — with 
long boddis waist." Of the mutual affection which 
had been as a "becon" in their path ever since, not- 
withstanding the fact that "it sputtered some and in 
tryin' times such as washin' days and housecleanin' 
had burned pretty low." She related how she had 
cured her husband of a habit of "comparin' his first 
relict, Polly Ann, with his present consort" and other 
interesting details. 



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TiRZA Ann 

Tirza Ann and Thomas Jefferson, the son and 
daughter of Josiah Allen by his first wife (as lovers of 
the Samantha books will remember), were grouped in 
the frame together. The pose was that of some 
picturesque old daguerreotype. The brother seated 
in a stiff, horsehair covered armchair, the sister lean- 
ing affectionately on the back of it. 

Tirza, an extremely pretty girl of brunette type, 
wore a flowered dimity gown of wartime pattern, 
having full gathered skirt, round, coUarless neck 
ruched all around with the goods, and full drooping 
sleeves. , 

Her soft brown hair was parted in the middle and 
worn in two braids, tied with ribbon. 

Thomas J. was arrayed in Sunday-go-to-meeting 
swallow-tail coat, light gray trousers, a fancy vest, 
stiff high hat and white cravat. Beside the chair 
on the carpet reposed his stove pipe hat. 

Samantha in describing them declared that she 
^ thought a sight of Tirza and Thomas J.'' having 
brought them up as her own. She dwelt entertain- 
ingly on Tirza's sentimentality ^^ which must have 
been inherited from Josiah," and on Thomas' argu- 
mentative propensities. She concluded with a hint 
that if in the future a pretty romance should develop 
'^between Tirza and Elder Wesley Minkley's son" it 
would be '^very agreeable" to herself and to Josiah. 



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Betsey Bobbett 

Betsey Bobbett, the village poetess, an elderly 
spinster of whose designs all the unmarried men of the 
neighborhood lived in dread, was cleverly imperson- 
ated by a girl with a long, slender face, the wrinkles 
and other blemishes being added with ^^ make-up." 

Her hair was worn high on her head and fell in 
corkscrew ringlets. Her dress was pale blue, like 
that worn on the famous '' tower to New York village" 
in the early seventies, ^^with flounces and puckers, an 
overskirt, Greek bender and tight-fitting bask." 

She wore a white bobbinet hat and an assortment 
of various kinds of jewelry, as described in the book. 

Samantha brought down the house with her ac- 
count of Betsey's incurable habit of writing poetry, 
of her sentimental vaporings, her opposition to woman's 
rights and her insistence upon matrimony as woman's 
true "spear." 

Maggie Snow 

In charming contrast to the brunette prettiness of 
Tirza Ann were the delicate features and blonde hair 
of another girl portrait — "Maggy Snow, Lawyer 
Snow's only child." 

Maggy wore a simple white frock of the country 
fashion of thirty-five years ago and a large hat of 
natural colored straw, trimmed with daisies. She 
wore a bunch of the same flowers pinned to her gown. 



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'^Fellow-men and sister- women, " said Josiah Allen's 
wife, in exhibiting this portrait, ''the next picter that 
looms up on our horizon will be that of Maggie Snow, 
Lawyer Snow's only child. Maggie has been up to 
Boston to school and has had considerable advantages. 
She's a straightforward, sensible girl, with no affecta- 
tion or sham about her. She reminds me of what 
Samantha Allen was before she changed her maiden 
name of Smith. 

"Thomas Jefferson every fortnight or so dresses up 
in his best and goes in the direction of Lawyer Snow's. 
He says he's attendin' a new protracted meetin' that 
has just started up that way. I don't say he isn't; 
but I will say they protract them pretty late. I don't 
make any matches or break any; but I must say 
things look promisin' and agreeable in the direction 
of the children. Whether they are engaged yet or not 
I don't know, for Thomas J. is such a hand for non- 
sense you can't find out anythin' from him no more 
than the wind." 

Elder Wesley Minkley 
The good elder was of medium height, with rosy 
apple face and portly form. The height of his fore- 
head was apparently increased by a large bald spot. 
His beard was trimmed in the form of closely cropped 
sideboards. He wore a suit of black clothes, with 
clerical waistcoat, buttoned over an undeniable 



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^'fagade" and large horn-rimmed spectacles poised 
rather far down on the nose. 

In describing him Samantha dwelt upon the good- 
ness and practical Christianity of .her pastor. 
^^ Brother Wesley Minkley hasn't got another fault I 
know of/' she said, ^^ except just a catchin' his church 
members and preachin' his sermons over to 'em after 
service and durin' the week. But I've said one hun- 
dred times I'm glad he's got that, for it sets me more 
at rest about him on windy days. Havin' that fault 
it don't seem so likely that he'll be carried straight up 
to heaven, as it would otherwise." 

The Widow Doodle 

The Widow Doodle, the subject of another likeness, 
was a small, slight woman, softly pretty. She was 
dressed in black with hair parted in the middle and 
brushed down over her ears. She sat with hands 
folded, staring straight in front of her, with a rapt 
expression, to suggest reveries about Doodle. 

In her description of the picture Samantha ex- 
plained how of late '^a considerable trial" had come 
upon her in the form of the relict of Josiah's brother, 
Timothy, who had since married and buried a second 
husband by the name of Doodle. Doodle had run 
through the widow's little property, had been worth- 
less and shiftless, yet to Samantha's disgust the widow 
still continued to harp on his appearance and general 



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attractiveness. Everything reminded her of Doodle, 
even a long, slim nutcake they had for supper. Sa- 
mantha was constantly forced to recall the sufferings 
of her favorite martyrs in order to avoid telling the 
Widow Doodle what she thought of her. 

The entire list of portraits is too long to give here. 
Those just quoted will serve to show the general plan. 
Any additional number desired can be worked up by 
consulting the famous books. 

The first portion of the evening, only, was devoted 
to the portraits, the entertainment afterwards taking 
a more varied form, including music, singing and two 
spirited dramatizations of chapters in the Samantha 
Allen books. 

The chapters in question were ^^The Singin' Quire" 
and ^^Our Quiltin' Bee" developed from well known 
incidents in ^^My Opinions and Betsey Bobbett's." 
The books afford such excellent details for staging 
these very humorous parts that no elaborations are 
necessary. 

While the scenery was being set for the first sketch 
Betsey Bobbett appeared before the curtain and read 
aloud several samples of her ^^ poetry." 

During the second entr'acte Shakespeare Bobbett, 
the young brother of Betsey, a fatuous and senti- 
mental youth, created great amusement by his ^^in- 
voluntary serenade to Tirza Ann." Shakespeare 
accompanied himself on an accordion. The '^Ser- 



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enade'' is to be found in ^^ Betsey Bobbett" and can 
be arranged to some popular air. 

The performance ended with a charming tableau 
called ''Protracted Meetin.'" 

The scene revealed an old-fashioned kitchen with 
rafters hung with harvest trophies, and firelight re- 
flected from one corner. Facing the fire was a high- 
backed, old-fashioned settle in which the audience 
could dimly discern the forms of Thomas Jefferson 
and Maggie Snow holding a ''protracted meetin'." 

THE BELLS 

A Christmas Entertainment 
A pretty and novel entertainment given at Christ- 
mas time was announced on the program as "The 
Bells," the basis of it being a series of drills, marches 
and other evolutions in costume with songs and music. 
Some apologies were due to E. A. Poe and other poets 
for liberties taken with their masterpieces and copy- 
right. 

As the curtain arose a beautiful soprano voice was 
heard singing behind the scenes the first verse of 
Moore's exquisite melody: 

Those evening bells! those evening bells! 
How many a tale their music tells 
Of youth and home and that sweet time, 
When last I heard their soothing chime. 
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This was followed by a pretty chorus in imitation 
of church bells performed by Japanese gongs which, 
sounding at first far away, gradually increased in 
volume until the origin of it was explained by the 
arrival of twelve girls dressed as church bells and carry- 
ing the little gongs before mentioned on which they 
performed very melodiously. 

The Evening Bells wore costimies of shiny gray 
paper muslin to imitate metal. The skirts were of 
ankle length and made close fitting at waist and over 
the hips, flaring very much at the lower hem where 
they were stiffened into rigidity with crinoline. When 
the girls marched the skirts swayed from side to side, 
giving a suggestion of ringing bells. The hair in this 
group was worn in long curls as seen in the old-fash- 
ioned pictures and wreathes of millinery flowers com- 
pleted the coiffure. Several graceful evolutions were 
gone through, after which the Evening Bells made 
way for the Wedding Bells. This group was an- 
nounced by reading aloud very clearly and musically 
a verse adapted from Poe : 

Hear the mellow Wedding bells — Golden bells! 
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! 

How it swells! 

How it dwells 

On the Future! how it tells. 

Of the rapture that impels, 

To the swinging and the ringing 

Of the beUs. 



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The group of Wedding Bells come in singing '^Hail 
to the Bride" and scattering rose leaves from baskets 
as if in the pathway of a bride. They carried between 
them bands of white ribbon as if to connect them in a 
cluster. The bell-like skirts were of course repeated 
here as elsewhere while in the broad-brimmed, flower- 
trimmed hats there was a suggestion of the brides- 
maids' procession. They were ^^ golden bells'' as 
described in the verse, being dressed in yellow offset 
with white trimming. Gold paper could be substi- 
tuted. 

The Alarm Bells were in flame color and were pre- 
cluded by a reading from Poe as follows: 

Hear the loud Alarum Bells, — Brazen bells! 

What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells. 
In the startled ear of night, 
How they scream out their affright. 
Too much horrified to speak, 
They can only shriek, shriek, shriek, 
Out of time. 

Alarm bells were summoned to the stage, or rather 
heralded there by the shrill sound of a siren fire engine 
whistle which came as a surprise to the audience and 
added to the realism of the feature. The perform- 
ance here is a drill in imitation of an old-fashioned 
bucket brigade of the days when fire engines were 
not and water buckets were passed from hand to hand. 
It was exceedingly graceful. 



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Of course, the inimitable Bells that '^proclaimed 
liberty throughout the land" were represented in an- 
other group. The Liberty Bells were dressed in 
bronze color and carried silk flags on long slender 
sticks. They came in marching to the tune of Yan- 
kee Doodle accompanied with drum taps, and per- 
formed a pretty flag drill singing ''The Star Spangled 
Banner." This group was received with patriotic 
cheers on the part of the audience. 

The Sleigh Bells were ushered in upon a stage of 
semi-darkness. Through the half dark, sleigh bells 
jingled while some one read aloud: 

Hear the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells, 
What a world of merriment their melody foretells. 
How they tinkle, tinkle, 

On the icy air of night. 
While the stars that oversprinkle 
All the heavens seem to twinkle 
With a crystalline delight. 

As the reader commenced these verses lights be- 
came a little brighter and paper snow began to fall 
slowly. As the reading was concluded, a realistic 
snow storm was whirling down. 

Out into this storm darted a dozen girls singing the 
familiar college song, "Jingle Bells," accompanied by 
chimes from the cluster of sleigh bells which they car- 
ried. They were costumed in silver paper pasted over 
thin cotton goods for durability and trimmed with 



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ermine. This last was made of raw cotton with dots 
of black water color which for stage effects is all that 
could be desired. 

The sleighing turbans were also of silver paper with 
ermine border. 

For the introduction of the Christmas Bells an in- 
troductory verse had to be improvised as nothing just 
right seemed to offer. It ran like this: 

Hear the joyous Christmas bells 

Break the frosty air. 
In the carol that upwells, 

All the world doth share. 
Peace on Earth, peace on Earth, 

Methought I heard them ringing; 
Good will to men! Good will to men! 
Angelic voices singing. 

The Christmas bells enter carrying between them 
long garlands of Christmas greens, with a suggestion 
of being strung on these. They have scarlet skirts 
with green bodices and wear wreaths of poinsettias in 
the hair. They render the lovely old Christmas Carol, 
^'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen." 



CHRISTMAS BELLES 

A series of tableaux representing different kinds of 
belles is extremely attractive. Among the various 
belles there is the wedding belle — showing a lovely 



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girl in wedding costume. While this is being shown 
the orchestra plays the *^ Wedding March'' from 
^'Lohengrin." ^^ Those Evening Belles" shows sev- 
eral maidens dressing for the first dance which marks 
their debut into society. The Monastery Belle is a 
beautiful young sister. The air of ^^The Monastery 
Bells'' is heard while this is shown. The Belle of the 
Future is a new baby in its mother's arms. A slumber 
song would be appropriate here. 



AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE 
Newer than tableaux and making less demand upon 
local talent than amateur theatricals is the picture se- 
ries known as an ^^Illustrated Magazine." This idea 
is one which admits of great variety and cleverness. 
Only change the contents of the magazine and you 
have a practically new entertainment. 

The cover is usually the first picture. Cast your 
eye over a dozen magazines and you have some idea 
of how diverse the choice really is. 

The cover design might be one in new art style. 
Two sea-nymphs clothed in flowing robes of green, 
relieved with touches of white and crowned with sea- 
weed, could rise from *^ property" rocks at each side 
of the stage supporting a scroll for the name of the 
periodical. Large, crimped shells, dolphins and other 
stage ^^ business" can be fashioned from pasteboard 



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and paper muslin. Or a group of pretty girls holding 
the emblems of the season — ^flowers for spring or 
fruit for summer — ^would make a pretty tableau for 
the cover. 

If the idea of pretty faces is not employed for the 
outside, one of the features of the magazine can be a 
series of different types of feminine beauty, each one 
divided from the others by a fall of the curtain. 
Among the suggestions are the Gypsy girl, the Western 
type, the Quaker City maid, the German and Spanish 
types. 

A good suggestion for the frontispiece is to have 
this illustrate a poem, which is read from one side of 
the stage while the tableau is exhibited; or the reading 
may precede the tableau. 

There will, of course, be a love story, with several 
tableaux illustrating it; a humorous department, with 
funny pictures; perhaps an historical article to afiford 
an opportunity for powdered hair and dress of long ago. 

Ten cents admission is a popular charge for enter- 
tainments of this kind. 



THE YANKEE DOODLE KITCHEN 

For the Christmas or Thanksgiving amateur en- 
tertainment a lively number is one called the Busy 
Housewives. The curtain goes up revealing an old- 
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women in the costume of a former day, say that of 1861, 
are busily at work. It would be amusing to have one 
of the number a colored mammy in bandana and 
apron. One of the housekeepers should be kneading 
dough, another stoning currants, another sweeping. 
One washes clothes in a tub, one irons, and so forth. 
When the scene is revealed the orchestra plays 
^^ Yankee Doodle" softly and slowly, but gradually 
the tune becomes louder and faster, until at the finale 
it is fast and furious in the extreme. As it increases 
in rapidity the housewives must work more and more 
rapidly in a way keeping time with the music. This 
feature needs little or no rehearsing and it is uproar- 
iously funny. 

MAJOR ATOM 
With chairs, covered with shawls or with anything 
that will serve as drapery, form three sides of a little 
square to imitate a puppet booth, at one end of the 
room. Back of these some one who is to give the per- 
formance, kneels concealed. Only his arms and hands 
appear above the barrier, and these are costumed and 
painted as follows: The hands are doubled up into 
'^ fists" and on the back of them are painted eyes, 
nose, mouth. One should have a moustache. Cover 
the arms with doll's dresses, reaching down to the el- 
bows, having one costume as masculine as possible. 
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the painted features. There should be a manager 
stationed in front of the chairs to volubly explain the 
puppets and to tell them what to do. They can bow 
and kiss their hands to the audience, dance, sing in 
thin piping voices, kiss each other, rush each other 
off the platform and delight the audience in a dozen 
other clever ways. 



HOW TO ARRANGE AN ORIGINAL PAGEANT 
FOR GIRLS 

The popularity of entertainments on the pageant 
order is already widespread and it is constantly grow- 
ing, the schools which open at varying dates about this 
time of year greatly swelling the ranks of the page- 
anters. 

Nothing could be more lovely or more advisable for 
the fall entertainment of a girls' school than A Page- 
ant of Autumn. Such an affair can be made prettily- 
spectacular without incurring any great expense, and 
it would have a large advantage over the usual dram- 
atics or musical program in that all the girls with- 
out exception and whatever their talents could take 
part. The pageant named would be specially beau^ 
tiful where the school is situated out of town and sur- 
rounded by grounds which serve as a natural back- 
ground, but much, too, can be done to make such a 
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Naturally I can here only make suggestions which 
will help to show the plan and to inspire the details, as 
so much will depend on the numbers to take part and 
other circumstances. However, the basis of a really 
poetic and effective pageant will be found in the fol- 
lowing outline : 

The girl chosen to impersonate Autumn should be a 
daughter of the gods, tall and stately in type. She 
could be costumed in warm brown, offset with red 
or yellow, or in rich wine color, and should wear a 
wreath of autumn leaves. Her costume is made in 
loose flowing style. 

Autumn must have a throne or dais, for which the 
following will be found a pretty arrangement. Where 
the throne is to be, make of rustic woodwork or 
poultry wire a frame to be twined and covered with 
autumn leaves and vines real or artificial. Small 
sheaves of wheat are arranged to lean against this 
foundation and in front of it is the throne which 
should be banked with golden rod. 

Above this arrange a canopy of boughs on the top 
of which are heaped up autumn leaves. These can 
be cut from the crepe paper in fall designs if not 
otherwise easily obtainable. Fasten the boughs so 
that they will shake easily by means of a cord at- 
tached to them but without becoming themselves dis- 
lodged. In this way the autumn leaves are brought 
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The beautiful symbolism of the season is to be fully 
developed in poetic detail. For instance, Autumn 
listening in a pretty attitude with one hand covering 
her ear hears the Chorus of The Year which gradually 
approaches (members of it walking two by two) and 
ranges itself behind her throne. This chorus con- 
sists of twelve girls having good voices and costumed 
in flowing robes, say of green faced with yellow. They 
wear their hair a la Grecque with fillets. The chorus 
chants to low recitative music the explanation of the 
pageant or rather of each individual part of it as that 
feature appears. Thus the chorus might open the 
recitative with : 

Golden Autumn comes again, 
With her storms of wind and rain — 

The spirits of Wind and Rain are represented by 
from six to eight girls attired in gray who with heads 
covered with floating gray veils scurry across the 
foreground, imitating as they go the sounds of the 
elements they represent. They disappear behind the 
leafy screen and reappear twice crossing the fore- 
ground twice in all. 

The Chorus: ^^With her fields of yellow grain'' — 
Enter eight girls costumed in yellow and carrying 
wheat sheaves. They go through a pretty drill, 
bending first in one direction and then in another to 
symbolize the swaying of grain in a wind. 



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The Chorus (continued) : 

Gifts for man and bird and brute, 
In her wealth of luscious fruit, 
In her store of precious root. 

Here enter the Autumn Fruits represented as follows: 
Six girls arrayed in leaf green carry across their 
shoulders long boughs from which fruits real or arti- 
ficial are swung. Having piled these treasures grace- 
fully around the throne of Autumn, they could render 
a rustic dance of the popular folk order. This could 
be executed to the music accompaniment of a flute 
in the background. 

The Chorus (continued) : 

Trees have yielded plum and pear, 
Nuts are ripened everywhere. 

Here a very cunning feature might be introduced 
in a group of the smaller girls attired as squirrels who 
pass across the foreground frisking like the little 
animals they represent and rattling the nuts in the 
little pouches they wear attached to their belts. 

Chorus: 

"Through the lanes where bindweed weaves, 
Graceful wreaths of clustering leaves" — 

Enter two girls dressed in the colors of the morning 
glory and wearing hats that suggest that flower. 
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are swung over to the shoulders of the next couple 
who carry large wreaths of Autumn leaves. 

The Harvesters are now heard in the distance sing- 
ing a harvest song. The Chorus (continues) : 

Home the reapers bear the sheaves, 
Singing loud their harvest song, 
In their hearty rustic tongue. 
Singing gaily, old and young. 
Singing loud beside the wain, 
With its load of burnished grain. 
Dropping all along the lane. 

This group — the reapers with the garnered leaves 
and the bright gleam of reaping hooks which can be 
made from cardboard and covered with silver paper 
— is a very lovely one. It should terminate in a 
miniature wain, or harvest wagon piled high with 
grain and fruits, gaily decorated with ribbons after 
the English fashion of olden times. Two of the num- 
ber do not carry other symbols but draw the wain by 
means of ribbons or wreaths. 

The Harvesters' contribution to the program is the 
Harvester Song which can be composed to suit the 
occasion and set to some good and familiar air. This 
they render again in completion after reaching the 
dais where Autumn sits enthroned. 

Chorus: 

Now the leaves come drifting down, 
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Enter the Leaf Girls dancing and scattering leaves. 
They pull the cords which shake off the overhead 
boughs and bring the rest of the Autumn trophies 
which are lodged there scattering down around the 
figure of Autumn. 

Chorus: 

Autumn winds their prowess tr3dng, 
Chase the leaves and keep them flying. 

Enter the Wind Spirits as the leaves complete their 
figure and pursue them noisily into the background. 
Chorus: 

Though the Summer flowers are dead 

(Shades of the flowers of Summer pass silently here) 

Gold rod lifts its bonny head, 

Asters bloom in daisies' stead. 

Enter a group of girls bearing large bunches of wild 
asters and golden rod, which they bank around 
Autumn's seat. 

Now by groups and couples all the actors return 
to the grassy stage where they take up a position pre- 
viously rehearsed. Each group holds outstretched 
its particular offering while the chorus recites the 
beautiful Ode to Autumn from Keats, beginning: 
^'Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. " Any 
other selection of the same appropriateness and 
literary value may be substituted to conclude the 
pageant if desired. It would be a pretty idea to have 



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, the actors summoned in this j&nal scene by trumpets 
j sounded by either the chorus of The Year or by the 
Winds acting as heralds. 

The Pageant of Good Women 

Another delightful entertainment of the same spec- 
tacular order which a large school can give, is one 
founded on the admirable women of all ages of his- 
tory. The chorus idea which tells the story would be 
charming here also, or the explanation can be read 
aloud by a single participant. Having selected such 
characters as can be impersonated, a brief rhymed 
explanation is written in which each character is an- 
nounced in just the order that it will have in the page- 
ant. As the character or float appears on the scene 
the verse explaining it is read or chanted. 

Some of the many splendid Hebrew women of 
Bible times could come first in the procession. The 
meek and faithful Ruth, the heroic Judith, Rebecca 
at the well, as well as the pathetic figure of Jephthah's 
daughter who died to fulfil her father's vow. 

Among the women of Greek and Roman antiquity 
proceed Cornelia with her famous jewels and among 
those of Roman and Grecian colonies the noble 
Hypatia and Monica, mother of St. Augustine. 

In medieval Europe the figures are numerous and 
most picturesque. Many a Saxon queen or noble 
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and in their English train follow Queen Philippa, of 
Hainault, who saved the Burghers of Calais, Queen 
Eleanor, who sucked the poison from Edward's wound 
(in poetic legend at least), and brave Marguerite of 
Anjou, who fought so dauntlessly the cause of her 
sick husband. Queen Isabella, who assisted Col- 
umbus, should not be forgotten in the galaxy, and 
coming to the shores of the New World, the kindly 
hearted Pocahontas should not be overlooked. Among 
the heroines of Revolutionary days what a wealth of 
material is offered! Abigail Adams, intelligent and 
loving; Martha Washington, who performed her 
stately part with success; Lydia Darrach, Betsy Ross, 
and many more. Among the women of more recent 
days are numbered such figures as Florence Night- 
ingale, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other phil- 
anthropists and writers who labored for the common 
good. 

DANCING DOWN IN DIXIE 
A capital plan for a subscription dance given north 
of ^^ Mason and Dixon" is a Down in Dixie affair. At 
such a one invitations were decorated with pickaninny 
heads below which was written a crooning lullaby 
couplet from ^^The Little Alabama Coon.'' Trim- 
mings of the room were of raw cotton, palmettos. 
Southern moss, galax, and other Dixie-land products. 
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had been fashioned into very realistic-looking bolls, 
as the true article was difficult to obtain at the time, 
and this substitute took its place so well as almost to 
deceive the eye. Enormous bolls depending from 
the chandelier, when pulled apart during the progress 
of the evening, showered down various novel favors 
for the cotillion. These favors included negro rag 
dolls dressed as waiters or ^^ mammies;" bales of raw 
cotton, with treasures at the core; big pralines made 
of silk over sachet cotton; sofa-pillow tops decorated 
with designs of conventionalized galax-leaves; mag- 
nolia sachets or perfume; crepe paper hats trimmed 
with paper flowers for the girls, and paper hats of 
modified sombrero order for men. 

The orchestra played "Dixie," to welcome the 
guests. 

The refreshments were stuiBfed, highly seasoned 
crabs with lettuce, lemon sandwiches, and coffee, 
followed by ice-cream cotton-bales, pecan layer-cake, 
and pralines. The ice-cream cotton-bales were in- 
dividual molds the shape of a bale, and on each portion 
was perched a tiny, grinning, black doll. 



UNUSUAL DANCE FIGURES 
Some unusual dance figures which helped to greatly 
enliven a dance given in aid of an old people's home 
were the following; 
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Curtain figure in which the men fished for the women 
with tiny red hearts, and the women for the men with 
wee white money bags. 

Glutton's Delight. The men were required to take 
seats upon the floor, spread a napkin, place a plate 
with a piece of bread on it upon the napkin and then 
devour the bread before they could claim the dance. 

Sports Number. The men exhibited their skill at 
golf before the young women and the girls showed how 
tennis should be played. 

The favors were rosettes, aigrettes, native arts and 
crafts jugs and pitchers, tiny flags, toy mice, paper 
clown caps and tissue-paper hats. 

Equally unusual were the favors at a summer dance 
given in aid of the local hospital. One figure was 
''The frog he would a wooing go." The young men 
wearing paper masks in the shape of frogs' heads 
hopped noisily around a pond and were fished for by 
the young women. 

A Cakewalk figure also won much applause. The 
cake was a tin pan turned bottom side up and de- 
ceptively decorated. 

The favors were heart ornaments, heart wands, 
windmills, mirror fans, g3^sy bonnets, student caps, 
lorgnettes and toy spectacles. 

They were distributed by means of a toy express 
wagon drawn and driven by children with blacked 
faces and costiuned as pickaninnies. 



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DANCING IN THE JUNGLE 

A Jungle Dance was a plan discovered for a sub- 
scription paying dance in aid of a library building. 
The hall was decorated in woodland style with small 
trees and shrubbery. Amid the trees hung the lights 
partly encased in moon lanterns. The dancers made 
merry in animal costumes. The refreshments were 
ices and punch, both served in hollowed out water- 
melons, and sandwiches and cakes. 



SUMMER EVE COTILLON 

A Subscription Dance which introduced many 
novel features was a Summer Eve Cotillon given at a 
summer resort hotel. 

The opening march was lighted by a huge full 
moon which rose from behind a miniature mountain 
on the stage, and by sparklets, colored lanterns, etc., 
carried by the guests. In one figure the young women 
^^shot" the men, costumed as strange animals, with 
toy guns, becoming partners with the men shot. Re- 
versed, the young men caught the girls, costumed as 
butterflies, with big nets or ^^shot" them, dressed as 
owls. Partners were found, also, by matching the 
faces on moon favors, flags and cards, and by means 
of incomplete quotations about Midsummer Eve, the 
men holding the verses, the girls the missing words. 



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AN ITALIAN FIESTA 

One society in charge of an antituberculosis cru- 
sade raised money for the work by an Italian Fiesta. 
All who attended were requested to wear Italian cos- 
tume. A carnival scene was rendered with charac- 
teristic dances, songs by a Neapolitan troupe and an 
amateur ballet. 

A comedy in two acts entitled The Castle of Liguria 
was rendered by amateurs. 

POINSETTIA DANCE 

With the first cold days come the brilliant red 
blooms of the poinsettia, than which nothing could be 
more decorative and effective for a mid-winter dance. 

The flower is admirably imitated in paper goods 
and millinery horticulture, and where enough of the 
natural blossoms cannot be obtained these artificial 
substitutes can be used to help eke out the decorative 
scene. 

The invitation cards for such a dance should be 
decorated with poinsettia sprays, either embossed 
or hand painted, which last may be home work where 
economy is an object, as the bold red effects are very 
easy even for an amateur to achieve. 

With the flowers combine any kind of evergreens 
you can get, such as juniper or arbor vitae made into 



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wreaths and garlands, or sprays of feathery white 
pine used just as they are cut. Ferns, too, are ex- 
tremely good in this connection. 

Use if you like some of the scarlet paper bells which 
even in quantities cost so little, and bows of scarlet 
gauze or of red crepe paper for catching up the green 
garlands. 

Cover all illumination globes with crepe paper hav- 
ing a design of scarlet poinsettia on a white field. 

A prominent feature of the decorations can be a 
large punch bowl (filled with lemonade if your princi- 
ples are prohibitionary) which is placed on a table 
decorated with holly or other greens. Wreath the 
punch bowl with poinsettia and have candied cherries 
or other red tidbits floating in the liquid contents. 

Over each doorway hang big scarlet bags or balls 
of the crepe paper from which drop green ribbons and 
which, when the ribbons are pulled, give favors for the 
dances. One of these favor holders could be of red 
and green crepe, another of crepe paper having a white 
field and red poinsettia pattern, while a third could 
be of white crepe paper fastened at the top with a 
bunch of poinsettias real or artificial and finished 
with scarlet streamers. 

The programs for a poinsettia dance can be of 
scarlet with green pencils, and the favors for the 
cotillon could be star-shaped boxes of candy, Santa 
Clauses, big holly berries made of red cotton goods 



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with trinkets at the center and paper hats or bonnets 
filled with poinsettias. 

For the table centerpiece if supper will be served 
in the dining-room, have a huge paper poinsettia 
covering a bran pie in which are buried fortunes or 
further trinkets for the guests. 

A Portrait Dance 

A charming idea for a costume dance was discovered 
not long ago. 

Each girl was asked to come representing the sub- 
ject of some famous portrait, the list including Mona 
Lisa, the Duchess of Devonshire, Mme. du Barry, 
Marie Antoinette, Madame Le Brun and others of 
equally diverse types. 

As the girls arrived, which they did by special arrange- 
ment half an hour before the time set for the appear- 
ance of the men, they were conducted into a room ad- 
joining the dance hall and connected with the latter 
by a folding doorway. Just back of the doors was 
arranged a huge gilt frame and in this the different 
girls took turns posing to represent the famous por- 
traits, small prints of which were on hand for con- 
sultation. 

As the men arrived each was given a slip of paper 
on which the name of a famous portrait appeared, 
and presently, the doors being thrown open between 
each two likenesses, the pictures began to be shown. 



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The young fellow holding the name of the picture 
being shown was supposed to approach the frame, 
claim as his partner the fair one exhibited and assist 
her from her position. 

In the first and last dances the men had as partners 
the damsels they took from the frames. 

The idea was carried out in various pretty ways. 
For instance, prettily framed prints of the pictures 
represented were among the favors. 

Candy Cotillion 

Nothing could please the little folks more completely 
than a frolic founded all on candy. The idea of the 
whole affair is that of lollipops and sugar-plums which 
are everywhere met with in decorations, favors and 
so on. 

For instance, the chandeliers are trimmed with 
candy balls which depend by ribbons. Candy canes 
are crossed over the doorways and any pillars are 
wound with goods in two colors to give the effect of 
striped sticks of candy. 

To find their partners for the first dance the boys 
draw a piece of candy from one bag, the girls from 
another. Those whose pieces match are partners, 
and before the dance is indulged in the candy dis- 
appears. 

In another round halves of candy sticks which have 
been attached to cords stretched across the room 



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might be cut down by the youngsters with their eyes 
bKndfolded. The boys cut from one cord, the girls 
from another and those whose pieces match dance to- 
gether. 

For the centerpiece of the supper table the con- 
fectioner can make you a little house with sloping 
roof built entirely of nut candy. Tiny dolls stand in 
the doorways. At the four corners of the board 
stand dishes filled with candies wrapped in gilt and 
silver and the favors are, of course, either surprise 
boxes filled with candy or animals and figures made 
of it. 

A Flower Dance 

This dance is equally pretty either for a grown-up 
contingent or for a single feature of a juvenile party. 
The idea is that each fair maid who will participate 
come costmned to represent a certain flower. As 
the men or boys arrive they are given paper flower 
sprays and must go in search of the girls whose cos- 
tumes match the flowers they hold. 

This search is a pretty feature of the frolic and if 
there are any strangers among the company it will 
effectually break down any stiffness. Another idea 
for the grown-up flower dance is to give each man a 
quotation about a flower, but having the name left 
out. Each guest is required to guess first the sub- 
ject of the quotation, but he may consult persons of 
the opposite sex if he desires, to assist him in solving 



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the puzzle. After partners have been found in this 
way those having the same floral emblem are sup- 
posed to dance at least the first waltz together, and 
also to go in as partners to supper. 

A Mystery Dance 

This is always most amusing, though not extremely 
mysterious, and the various features are changed more 
or less by each individual hostess. 

The idea is to have each dance depend not upon 
the individual choice of the men, as in the conven- 
tional affair, but upon various little devices, casual or 
planned in advance by the entertainer. 

For such an event not long ago this merry scheme 
was tried. First of all the men dug in a Klondike 
arranged in the usual way, each digging in turn until 
he unearthed a card. On the card was written not 
the name of the girl with whom the recipient would 
be expected to dance, as the company had looked 
for, but simply a puzzle which when guessed would 
give the correct name. Thus Miss Barnes was sug- 
gested by the words ^' Found at the farm" (i. e., 
Barns). Miss Towns stood revealed or concealed, 
as you will, in the name of three prosperous manu- 
facturing towns grouped together, and so on. 

When all the girls had been discovered in these 
puzzles the dance began. In another round the girls 
were concealed behind a curtain and it was the fair 



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hand which he chose projecting from this screen upon 
the other side which each young fellow claimed for 
the second dance. 

Again they had a cobweb, both men and girls fol- 
lowing the webs around the lower floor of the house. 
Those whose cords ran together at the end danced 
together in the third of the series. 

In the fourth a gypsy appeared, who distributed 
little articles which the yoimg people matched up to 
find partners as before. 



A POP INSTEAD OF A HOP FOR A LEAP YEAR 

DANCE 

Make your Leap Year subscription dance a Pop, 
issuing tickets at twenty-five cents apiece and a good 
time will be generally ensured. 

Decorate the cards of invitation with pen sketches 
of poppies, and for trimming use large poppy-like 
flowers made of pink crepe paper in combination with 
strings of pink and white pop-corn. The pianist or 
the orchestra should play "Pop Goes the Weasel," 
as the guests come trooping in. 

To begin the fun, when all are on the scene, bring in 
a huge bran pie made in a dishpan trimmed with 
tissue paper, and placarded "Votes for Women." 
From the pie, fall ribbons which the girls of the party 
are requested to pull. These come away, bringing 



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with them cards on which are written the names of the 
different men of the party. Each girl dances the 
first number with the man whose name she draws. 

For the next number the entertainer passes around 
the circle two baskets containing folded paper. The 
men take from one, the girls from the other, and when 
opened the papers are found to have written upon 
them humorous proposals and rephes. Those re-^ 
ceived by the girls are proposals, and the men are 
given the replies. The proposals and the answers are 
both highly absurd, and it is by matching them that 
the players become partners for the second dance. 

For another dance give the girls slips of paper on 
which the syllable ^^pop" is written, and give the 
men similar slips on which appear syllables or parts 
of words which, when matched with the ^^pops,'' will 
form complete words. They include such words as, 
pop-gun, popular, poplar, Popham, populous, poppy, 
popcorn, popinjay, poplin. The girls select the 
remaining syllables and make up the words to suit 
their individual tastes. Having formed themselves 
into completed words, the couples are ready for an- 
other dance. 

A MIDDY HOP 

Twenty-four boys and girls enjoyed themselves 
mightily at a httle dance, the idea of which they origi- 
nated themselves, and christened a Middy Hop. It 



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was held in one of the rooms of the school building 
and ten cents admission fee was paid by each in aid 
of a local charity. 

Invitations were written in nautical terms borrowed 
from a story of the sea. 

The girls wore sailor blouses and the men white 
ducks, which, with the addition of sailor collars and 
paper sailor caps, made effective costumes. 

The high-school hall, in which the entertainment 
was given, had been arranged to represent the deck of 
a ship. Portions of an old telegraph-pole, arranged 
upright, Vith plenty of ropes proceeding from them, 
gave an illusion of masts. 

Steamer-chairs and deck-stools were provided for 
those who wished to sit out a dance, and refreshments 
were served later under sail canvas, stretched to form 
a canopy. The entire room was gaily decorated with 
flags, naval ensigns and bunting. The refreshments 
consisted of clam broth, with ^^ hardtack" (toasted 
Boston crackers); lobster salad, with dainty sand- 
wiches, cut in fish and star shapes with cooky-cutters; 
^^plum duff"; "grog" (fruit lemonade), and salt- 
water taffy. 

A MANACLE DANCE 

One figure that amused the guests at a recent ball 
for charity was the "lock and key" dance. In this 
the young women, carrying small keys, were called 



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upon to remove manacles from the wrists of their 
prospective partners. There was much scurrying 
about before the right locks were found. Those 
fortunate in the search at once waltzed off with their 
partners, but some were unable to locate their danc- 
ing companions before the orchestra had finished the 
music and so had to miss the dance. 



A STARLIGHT DANCE 

Very novel and amusing, too, is a starlight dance. 

This is where the invitations are printed or written 
on gilded star shapes, the rooms are trimmed with 
garlands of gilt stars, red stars of paper and immor- 
telles, and the illumination is of starlike electric globes. 

All those invited are requested to come dressed as 
some kind of star. Thus one will be Shooting Star, 
carrying a bow and arrow, and will be very likely to be 
confounded with Sagittarius, the Archer. Another 
will be a Theatrical Star, another an Operatic Star, 
and so on. There will, of course, be Unlucky Stars, 
very solemn with emblems of fractured hopes, and 
Lucky Stars, radiant and with the lucky emblems. 

The Star of Empire will be there, naturally, and 
the Star of Napoleon. A maiden wearing white deco- 
rated with white starlike flowerets will be recognized 
as Star of Bethlehem. Starfish is marine and mossy. 
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for the sake of patriotism should be represented like- 
wise. 

When all are on the scene the different stars must 
be guessed ere the dance can begin. 

One feature of the evening could be bursting a tissue- 
paper bag containing stars of all colors. The men 
scramble for the contents and the name of the girl 
found on a man's star-shape is that of his partner for 
the dance. 

This feature is called the Star Shower. In another 
figure each man gazes into a mock telescope and the 
face which passes before his glass is that of the maiden 
he must seek for the waltz or two-step. The cotillion 
can end towards midnight with a shower of tiny gilt 
and silver stars if the dance is given where a balcony 
of any kind is available for showering this pretty 
confetti. 

Favors for this affair should be more or less all in 
astral shape. Bonbonnieres, pincushions, booklets, 
can all be obtained in the winter season in the de- 
sired form. Stars made of flowers, of evergreen or 
scarlet immortelles are equally attractive. Again, 
the hostess herself can make little quotation books 
having both leaves and covers of starry shape, the 
latter gilded, and a quotation about the stars on each 
separate leaf. This was tried at such a dance and 
the quotation books seemed to please more than most 
of the purchased trinkets. 



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Of course, the supper table will be starry in the 
extreme. The centerpiece is a large star of holly or 
red immortelles placed on a star of paper of a con- 
trasting color. Then the candle shades are bespangled 
with stars while the doylies are replaced under the side 
dishes by stars cut of gilt or silver paper. Star- 
shaped candies are pretty for the bonbon dishes and 
if place cards are used these will take the shape re- 
quired by the occasion. 

LITTLE MONEY RAISERS OF LOCAL POP- 
ULARITY 

A great attraction especially for the feminine con- 
tingent at a recent country bazaar was an album 
quilt worked by members of the Ladies' Aid during 
leisure hours. The quilt was worked in thirty squares, 
one for each person interested. When the fair was 
held, ten cents was charged to have one's name (vis- 
iting card) sewed in the appropriate square of the 
quilt. The quilt was exhibited with all the names in 
place and netted three dollars peep money over and 
above the price obtained for it. 

VOTING CONTEST 

In small towns especially those situated near the 
county boundaries an excellent way to raise money is 
by establishing a voting contest, for the "prettiest 



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girl" and the "ugliest boy." Voting slips are sold at 
five cents each to be filled in with the names of the 
girls voted for. For the interest of the polling hes 
principally with the gentler sex championed by the 
gallantry of their men folks. Rather than let the 
palm of prettiness be carried off by the girls of an- 
other county the boys will purchase the voting slips 
wholesale and large amounts result almost without 
trouble to those interested. 

The Calendar Cook Book 

Many like a money making plan where a large body 
of women can co-operate at once, each playing her 
separate part. For this a Calendar Cook Book to be 
made up of the choice "tried and true" culinary 
recipes of three hundred and sixty-five women is a 
splendid imdertaking. The books which come for 
recipes can be as the basis of the work, or manuscript 
cook books bound at home could be prepared. In 
addition to contributing her recipe (or recipes if fewer 
than 365 are engaged in the work), each person inter- 
ested obtains subscriptions for, or sells copies of, the 
really valuable and practical work. 

The Year and Days 
For this ever good plan one woman acts as The 
Year and contributes five dollars. The Year vol- 
unteers to obtain four helpers who represent the 



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Seasons, each of whom will contribute one dollar. 
Each Season then volunteers to obtain three Months 
to contribute fifty cents each. The Months are pre- 
pared to find four Weeks at twenty-five cents. Each 
Week obtains seven Days to contribute ten cents and 
the Days find twenty-four Hours (or twelve hours) 
as agreed upon, at five cents each. When the entire 
sum has been collected a social meeting is held and 
the money collected and contributed, after which 
some form of pleasant time should be arranged. 



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